Perimele

Also known as: Perimede / the Nymph · Role: nymph · First appears: Fable 74

Life events

Hippodamas throws his pregnant daughter Perimele from a rock into the sea.(Fable74 · 📍 sea)
- With: Hippodamas
- “This her father, Hippodamas, took amiss, and pushed the body of his daughter, when about to bring forth, from a rock, into the sea.”
Neptune grants Perimele refuge by transforming her floating body into an island.(Fable74 · 📍 sea)
- With: Neptune Acheloüs
- “The King of the ocean moved his head, and shook all the waters with his assent. The Nymph was afraid; but yet she swam. Her breast, as she was swimming, I myself touched, as it throbbed with a tremulous motion; and while I felt it, I perceived her whole body grow hard, and her breast become covered with earth growing over it.”

courtship with Acheloüs “After the repast, Acheloüs gives him the history of the five Naiads, who had been changed into the islands called Echinades, and an account of his own amour with the Nymph Perimele, whom, being thrown by her father into the sea, Neptune had transformed into an island.”
parent: Hippodamas “This her father, Hippodamas, took amiss, and pushed the body of his daughter, when about to bring forth, from a rock, into the sea.”
with Neptune (Neptune assents to and enables Perimele's transformation into an island.) “The King of the ocean moved his head, and shook all the waters with his assent. The Nymph was afraid; but yet she swam. Her breast, as she was swimming, I myself touched, as it throbbed with a tremulous motion; and while I felt it, I perceived her whole body grow hard, and her breast become covered with earth growing over it. While I was speaking, fresh earth enclosed her floating limbs, and a heavy island grew upon her changed members.”

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