Nymphs — Minor Figures

4 figures from The Metamorphoses of Ovid who appear only briefly. Each keeps their own page; this one gathers them so they can be read together.

Mnemosyne

mother of the Muses · first appears Fable 55

• Fable 55 · admirer: Jupiter “This Nymph, as already mentioned, became the mother of the Nine Muses, having been seduced by Jupiter.”

Phillyra

mother of Chiron · first appears Fable 55

• Fable 55 · child: Chiron “By Phillyra, Saturn was the father of the Centaur Chiron.”

Symæthis

mother of Acis · first appears Fable 100

• Fable 100 · child: Acis “Acis was the son of Faunus and of the Nymph Symæthis, a great delight, indeed, to his father and his mother”

Orphne

Nymph of Avernus · first appears Fable 52

• Fable 52 · child: Ascalaphus “He was the son of Acheron, by the Nymph Orphne”

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