Syrinx

Also known as: the Nymph · Role: naiad · First appears: Fable 15

Life events

Syrinx rejects Pan’s suit and flees from him.(Fable15)
- With: Pan
- “the Nymph, slighting his suit, fled through pathless spots”
Syrinx invokes the Naiads, who transform her into reeds.(Fable15 · 📍 Ladon)
- “until she came to the gentle stream of sandy Ladon;[108] and that here, the waters stopping her course, she prayed to her watery sisters, that they would change her;”
Pan mistakes reeds for Syrinx, then creates a seven-piped instrument bearing her name.(Fable15 · 📍 Ladon)
- With: Pan
- “Pan, when he was thinking that Syrinx was now caught by him, had seized hold of some reeds of the marsh, instead of the body of the Nymph; and {how}, while he was sighing there, the winds moving amid the reeds had made a murmuring noise”

courtship with Pan “Pan, falling in love with the Nymph Syrinx, she flies from him; on which he pursues her.”
with Diana (Syrinx is portrayed as devoted to Diana.) “In her pursuits and her virginity itself she used to devote herself to the Ortygian Goddess;[107] and being clothed after the fashion of Diana”
with Latona (Syrinx was only supposed to be Latona's daughter.) “she might have deceived one, and might have been supposed to be the daughter of Latona”
admirer: Pan (Pan pursues Syrinx after falling in love with her.) “Pan, falling in love with the Nymph Syrinx, she flies from him;”

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