Ciris
Role: bird, formerly Scylla · First appears: Fable 70
Life events
- Scylla is transformed into a bird called Ciris.(Fable70)
- With: Scylla (daughter of Nisus)
- “With feathers, being changed into a bird, she is called Ciris;”
Fable 70
- with Scylla (daughter of Nisus) (Scylla is transformed into the bird called Ciris.) “With feathers, being changed into a bird, she is called Ciris;[11] and this name does she obtain from cutting off the lock.”
- with Nisus (Nisus, transformed into a sea eagle, attacks his transformed daughter.) “When her father beholds her, (for now he is hovering in the air, and he has lately been made a sea eagle, with tawny wings), he is going to tear her in pieces with his crooked beak.”
- with Virgil (interaction) “According to Virgil, who, in his Ciris, describes this transformation”
- with Hyginus (interaction) “Hyginus says that the ‘Ciris’ was a fish.”
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Extracted from the original text of The Metamorphoses of Ovid. Made with Rho MD.