Hyperion

Family: Titans · Role: deity · First appears: Fable 1

Life events

• Clytie reveals Leucothoë’s affair, and Hyperion buries Leucothoë alive.(Fable40)
  • With: Clytie Leucothoë
  • “Clytie envied her, (for the love of the Sun[40] for her had not been moderate), and, urged on by resentment at a rival, she published the intrigue, and, when spread abroad, brought it to the notice of her father. He, fierce and unrelenting, cruelly buried her alive deep in the ground”

Fable 1

• child: Sun “Being thus, as it were, the father of astronomy, he has been feigned by the poets to have been the father of the Sun and the Moon.”
• child: Diana “Being thus, as it were, the father of astronomy, he has been feigned by the poets to have been the father of the Sun and the Moon.”

Fable 39

• child: Sun (The surrounding address identifies the Sun as the son of Hyperion: “What now, son of Hyperion”) “For thou, who dost burn all lands with thy flames”

Fable 40

• child: Sun (The Sun is identified as Hyperion's son.) “The son of Hyperion scattered it with his rays, and gave a passage to thee, by which thou mightst be able to put forth thy buried features.”

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