Cinyras

Role: king and father of Myrrha · First appears: Fable 90

Life events

Hippolyte deceives Cinyras and arranges Myrrha’s secret access to him.(Fable90)
- With: Hippolyte Myrrha
- “After she is commanded to bring her, and as soon as she has returned home, she says, ‘Rejoice, my fosterling, we have prevailed.’”
Myrrha consummates the incestuous union and becomes pregnant by Cinyras.(Fable90)
- With: Myrrha
- “Pregnant by her father, she departs from the chamber, and, in her impiety, bears his seed in her incestuous womb”
Cinyras discovers that his secret paramour is his daughter and draws his sword against her.(Fable90)
- With: Myrrha
- “At last, Cinyras, after so many embraces, longing to know who is his paramour, on lights being brought in, discovers both the crime and his own daughter.”
Myrrha escapes Cinyras and flees his dominions.(Fable90 · 📍 Panchæan fields)
- With: Myrrha
- “Myrrha flies, rescued from death by the gloom and the favour of a dark night; and wandering along the wide fields, she leaves the Arabians famed for their palms, and the Panchæan fields.”

child: Myrrha “Myrrha, the daughter of Cinyras and Cenchris, having conceived an incestuous passion for her own father”
married with Cenchris “Cenchreïs, the king’s wife, is absent in that company, and attends the mysterious rites. Therefore, while his bed is without his lawful wife, the nurse, wickedly industrious, having found Cinyras overcome with wine”
with Myrrha (interaction) “Take her, Cinyras, she is thy own,’ and {so} unites their doomed bodies. The father receives his own bowels into the polluted bed”

child: Adonis “the son of Cinyras pierced him, endeavouring to escape from the wood, with a wound from the side.”

Extracted from the original text of The Metamorphoses of Ovid. Made with Rho MD.