Ascalaphus

Family: Infernal beings · Role: informer transformed into an owl · First appears: Fable 52

Life events

• Ascalaphus discovers Proserpine’s eating and prevents her return.(Fable52)
  • With: Proserpine
  • “He beheld {this}, and cruelly prevented her return by his discovery.”

Fable 52

• with Proserpine (Proserpine, the Queen of Erebus, punishes Ascalaphus by transforming him.) “The Queen of Erebus grieved, and changed the informer into an accursed bird”
• parent: Acheron (The footnote identifies Acheron as Ascalaphus's father.) “He was the son of Acheron, by the Nymph Orphne”
• parent: Orphne (The footnote identifies Orphne as Ascalaphus's mother.) “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.