Halcyone

Role: daughter of Scyron · First appears: Fable 64

Life events

• Morpheus appears as Ceyx and reveals that shipwreck killed him.(Fable97 · 📍 Herculean Trachyn)
  • With: Morpheus Ceyx
  • “Then leaning on the bed, with tears running down his face, he says these words: “My most wretched wife, dost thou recognise thy Ceyx, or are my looks so changed with death? Observe me; thou wilt surely know me: and, instead of thy husband, thou wilt find the ghost of thy husband. Thy prayers, Halcyone, have availed me nothing; I have perished.”
• Halcyone finds Ceyx’s corpse washed ashore.(Fable97)
  • With: Ceyx
  • “After the water has brought it a little nearer, and, although it is still distant, it is plain that it is a corpse. Ignorant who it may be, because it is ship-wrecked, she is moved at the omen, and, though unknown, would fain give it a tear. ‘Alas! thou wretched one!’ she says, ‘whoever thou art; and if thou hast any wife!’ Driven by the waves, the body approaches nearer. The more she looks at it, the less and the less is she mistress of her senses. And now she sees it brought close to the land, that now she can well distinguish it: it is her husband.”
• The Gods transform Ceyx and Halcyone into birds.(Fable97)
  • With: Ceyx
  • “but really he was sensible of it; and, at length, through the pity of the Gods above, both were changed into birds.”

Fable 64

• parent: Scyron (Parent-to-child direction.) “Halcyone, the daughter of his son Scyron”

Fable 97

• married with Ceyx “But if thy resolution, my dear husband, cannot be altered by my entreaties, and if thou art {but} too determined to go; take me, too, as well.”
• parent: Æolus “By such words and the tears of the daughter of Æolus, is her husband, son of the {Morning} Star, {much} affected;”
• with Juno (Halcyone worships Juno.) “but, before all, she pays her adorations at the temple of Juno, and comes to the altars on behalf of her husband, who is not in existence.”
• with Morpheus (Morpheus is sent to Halcyone as a messenger in a dream.) “and command him, under the form of Ceyx who is dead, to send a vision to Halcyone, to relate her real misfortune.”

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