Liriope

Role: Nymph · First appears: Fable 35

Life events

• Liriope gives birth to Narcissus and names him.(Fable35)
  • With: Narcissus
  • “The most beauteous Nymph produced an infant from her teeming womb, which even then might have been beloved, and she called him Narcissus.”

Fable 35

• child: Narcissus (Liriope is identified as the Nymph who produced and named Narcissus.) “The azure Liriope[68] was the first to make essay and experiment of his infallible voice; whom once Cephisus encircled in his winding stream, and offered violence to, {when} enclosed by his waters. The most beauteous Nymph produced an infant from her teeming womb, which even then might have been beloved, and she called him Narcissus.”
• with Cephisus (Cephisus sexually assaults Liriope.) “The azure Liriope[68] was the first to make essay and experiment of his infallible voice; whom once Cephisus encircled in his winding stream, and offered violence to, {when} enclosed by his waters.”
• parent: Oceanus “She was the daughter of Oceanus and Tethys, and was the mother of the youth Narcissus, by the river Cephisus.”
• parent: Tethys “She was the daughter of Oceanus and Tethys, and was the mother of the youth Narcissus, by the river Cephisus.”

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