Divine — Minor Figures

10 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.

Moon

lunar deity · first appears Fable 18

• Fable 18 · siblings with Apollo “The Moon, too, wonders that her brother’s horses run lower than her own, and the scorched clouds send forth smoke.”

Hyale

Nymph · first appears Fable 32

• Fable 32 · with Diana “Nephele,[20] and Hyale,[21] and Rhanis,[22] fetch water, Psecas[23] and Phyale[24] {do the same}, and pour it from their large urns.”

Nephele

Nymph · first appears Fable 32

• Fable 32 · with Diana “Nephele,[20] and Hyale,[21] and Rhanis,[22] fetch water, Psecas[23] and Phyale[24] {do the same}, and pour it from their large urns.”
• Fable 96 · child: Helle “the narrow sea of Helle, the daughter of Nephele.”

Phyale

Nymph · first appears Fable 32

• Fable 32 · with Diana “Nephele,[20] and Hyale,[21] and Rhanis,[22] fetch water, Psecas[23] and Phyale[24] {do the same}, and pour it from their large urns.”

Psecas

Nymph · first appears Fable 32

• Fable 32 · with Diana “Nephele,[20] and Hyale,[21] and Rhanis,[22] fetch water, Psecas[23] and Phyale[24] {do the same}, and pour it from their large urns.”

Rhanis

Nymph · first appears Fable 32

• Fable 32 · with Diana “Nephele,[20] and Hyale,[21] and Rhanis,[22] fetch water, Psecas[23] and Phyale[24] {do the same}, and pour it from their large urns.”

Phoroneus

father of Inachus · first appears Fable 14

• Fable 14 · child: Inachus “He was the father of Jasius and of Inachus, the parent of Io.”
• Fable 14 · with Io “Nor can the ruler of the Gods above, any longer endure so great miseries of the granddaughter of Phoroneus;[102]”

Earth

personified earth · first appears Fable 18

• Fable 18 · child: Tethys “[Footnote 3: Tethys.--Ver. 69. She was the daughter of Cœlus and Terra, and the wife of Oceanus. Her name is here used to signify the ocean itself.]”
• Fable 18 · child: Ægeon “[Footnote 1: Ægeon.--Ver. 10. Homer makes him to be the same with Briareus. According to another account, which Ovid here follows, he was a sea God, the son of Oceanus and Terra.]”

Crocale

Nymph · first appears Fable 32

• Fable 32 · parent: Ismenus “But Crocale,[19] the daughter of Ismenus, more skilled than they, gathered her hair, which lay scattered over her neck, into a knot, although she herself was with {her hair} loose.”

Aristor

father of Argus · first appears Fable 14

• Fable 14 · child: Argus “Argus, the son of Aristor”

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