Other Figures — Minor Figures

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

Pallas Athena

goddess · first appears Book III 3

• Book III 3 · protégé: Jason “And their ship was fashioned by Pallas Athena, not such a one as are the ships among the Colchians, on the vilest of which we chanced.”

Cadmus

hero and founder of Thebes · first appears Book III 9

• Book III 9 · mentor: Apollo “There he settled by the guidance of the heifer whom Apollo by his prophetic word granted him to lead him on his way.”
• Book III 9 · patron: Apollo “There he settled by the guidance of the heifer whom Apollo by his prophetic word granted him to lead him on his way.”

Coronis

mother of Apollo’s son · first appears Book IV 5

• Book IV 5 · with Apollo “his son whom divine Coronis bare in bright Lacereia”

Cyrene

nymph and huntress · first appears Book II 5

• Book II 5 · with Apollo “But, as she guarded her flock by the river, Apollo carried her off far from Haemonia and placed her among the nymphs of the land, who dwelt in Libya near the Myrtosian height.”
• Book II 5 · child: Aristaeus “And here to Phoebus she bore Aristaeus whom the Haemonians, rich in corn-land, call ‘Hunter’ and ‘Shepherd’.”

Delphyne

monster · first appears Book II 6

• Book II 6 · enemies with Apollo “how once beneath the rocky ridge of Parnassus he slew with his bow the monster Delphyne, he, still young and beardless, still rejoicing in his long tresses.”

Garamas

son of Amphithemis · first appears Book IV 12

• Book IV 12 · parent: Apollo “and she bare to Phoebus a glorious son, whom they call Amphithemis and Garamas”
• Book IV 12 · parent: Acacallis “and she bare to Phoebus a glorious son, whom they call Amphithemis and Garamas”

Aegle

nymph · first appears Book IV 12

• Book IV 12 · enemies with Heracles “Surely there has come hither a mighty succour to your toils, that most accursed man, who robbed our guardian serpent of life and plucked the golden apples of the goddesses and is gone; and has left bitter grief for us.”

Eretheis

nymph · first appears Book IV 12

• Book IV 12 · enemies with Heracles “Surely there has come hither a mighty succour to your toils, that most accursed man, who robbed our guardian serpent of life and plucked the golden apples of the goddesses and is gone; and has left bitter grief for us.”

Eurystheus

taskmaster of Heracles · first appears Book I 10

• Book I 10 · servant: Heracles “At Argos it is his fate to labour for insolent Eurystheus and to accomplish full twelve toils”