Mortals — Minor Figures

9 figures from The Metamorphoses of Ovid who appear only briefly. Each keeps their own page; this one gathers them so they can be read together.

Stellio

boy transformed into a newt · first appears Fable 51

• Fable 51 · with Ceres “Ceres goes everywhere in search of her daughter, and, in her journey, turns the boy Stellio into a newt.”

Deione

parent · first appears Fable 81

• Fable 81 · child: Miletus “Miletus, the son of Deione”

Olenus

husband of Lethæa · first appears Fable 83

• Fable 83 · married with Lethæa “Olenus, who was supposed to be the son of Vulcan, had a beautiful wife, whose name was Lethæa.”
• Fable 83 · parent: Vulcan “Olenus, who was supposed to be the son of Vulcan, had a beautiful wife, whose name was Lethæa.”

Dryas

son of Lycurgus · first appears Fable 38

• Fable 38 · parent: Lycurgus “mistaking his own son Dryas for a vine, destroyed him with the same weapon.”

Orchomenus

father of Minyas · first appears Fable 38

• Fable 38 · child: Minyas “Alcithoë was the daughter of Minyas, who, according to some, was the son of Orchomenus, according to others, his father.”

Lethæa

wife of Olenus · first appears Fable 83

• Fable 83 · married with Olenus “Olenus, who was supposed to be the son of Vulcan, had a beautiful wife, whose name was Lethæa.”

Semiramis

queen · first appears Fable 38

• Fable 38 · parent: Dercetis “to her own mother, Derceto.”
• Fable 48 · child: Polydæmon “Then he slays Polydæmon, sprung from the blood of Semiramis,”

Thisbe

lover of Pyramus · first appears Fable 38

• Fable 38 · courtship with Pyramus “Pyramus and Thisbe, the one the most beauteous of youths,[18] the other preferred before {all} the damsels that the East contained, lived in adjoining houses;”

Pyramus

lover of Thisbe · first appears Fable 38

• Fable 38 · courtship with Thisbe “Pyramus and Thisbe, the one the most beauteous of youths,[18] the other preferred before {all} the damsels that the East contained, lived in adjoining houses;”

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