Metra

Family: Triopas's family · Role: daughter of Erisicthon and wife of Autolycus · First appears: Fable 76

Life events

Neptune transforms Metra into a fisherman so she can escape her pursuing master.(Fable76)
- With: Neptune
- “He, not despising her prayer, although, the moment before, she has been seen by her master in pursuit of her, both alters her form, and gives her the appearance of a man, and a habit befitting such as catch fish.”
Erisicthon repeatedly sells Metra, who escapes by transforming into different creatures.(Fable76)
- With: Erisicthon
- “But when her father found that his {daughter} had a body capable of being transformed, he often sold the grand-daughter of Triopas to {other} masters. But she used to escape, sometimes as a mare, sometimes as a bird, now as a cow, now as a stag;”

parent: Erisicthon (Erisicthon is Metra's father.) “At last, after he has swallowed down his estate into his paunch,[100] his daughter {alone} is remaining, undeserving of him for a father; her, too, he sells, pressed by want.”
married with Autolycus (Footnote 91 identifies Metra as Autolycus's wife.) “His wife was Metra, whose transformations are here described by the Poet.”
courtship with Neptune (Neptune had formerly been in love with Metra.) “Metra begs of Neptune, who was formerly in love with her, the power of transforming herself into different shapes;”
elder kin: Triopas “But when her father found that his {daughter} had a body capable of being transformed, he often sold the grand-daughter of Triopas to {other} masters.”
admirer: Neptune “Metra begs of Neptune, who was formerly in love with her, the power of transforming herself into different shapes;”

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