Learchus

Family: Theban royal family · Role: son of Athamas and Ino · First appears: Fable 44

Life events

In his madness, Athamas seizes Learchus and dashes him against stones.(Fable44 · 📍 Palace of Athamas)
- With: Athamas
- “Immediately the son of Æolus, filled with rage, cries out, in the midst of his palace, ‘Ho! companions, spread your nets in this wood; for here a lioness was just now beheld by me with two young ones.’ And, in his madness, he follows the footsteps of his wife, as though of a wild beast; and he snatches Learchus, smiling and stretching forth his little arms from the bosom of his mother, and three or four times he whirls him round in the air like a sling, and, frenzied, he dashes in pieces[65] the bones of the infant against the hard stones.”

parent: Athamas “Tisiphone, being sent by Juno to the Palace of Athamas, causes him to become mad; on which he dashes his son Learchus to pieces against a wall.”
parent: Ino “He then pursues his wife Ino, who throws herself headlong from the top of a rock into the sea, with her other son Melicerta in her arms”
with Athamas (interaction) “and he snatches Learchus, smiling and stretching forth his little arms from the bosom of his mother, and three or four times he whirls him round in the air like a sling, and, frenzied, he dashes in pieces[65] the bones of the infant against the hard stones.”

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