Autonoë

Family: Thebes · Role: aunt of Pentheus and mother of Actæon · First appears: Fable 37

Life events

Tiresias predicts Bacchus’s arrival and Pentheus’s violent death for refusing divine honors.(Fable37)
- With: Tiresias Pentheus Bacchus Semele Agave
- “For soon the day will come, and even now I predict that it is not far off, when the new {God} Liber, the son of Semele, shall come hither. Unless thou shalt vouchsafe him the honor of a temple, thou shalt be scattered, torn in pieces, in a thousand places, and with thy blood thou shalt pollute both the woods, and thy mother and the sisters of thy mother.”
Pentheus is torn apart by the Bacchantes, including his mother and aunts.(Fable37 · 📍 Cithæron)
- With: Pentheus Agave Ino
- “At the sight Agave howls aloud, and tosses her neck, and shakes her locks in the air; and seizing his head, torn off, with her blood-stained fingers, she cries out, ‘Ho! my companions, this victory is our work!’”

child: Actæon “Autonoë, the mother of Actæon”
younger kin: Pentheus “Give me thy aid, Autonoë, my aunt; let the ghost of Actæon[98] influence thy feelings.”
with Pentheus (interaction) “She knows not what Actæon {means}, and tears away his right hand as he is praying”

child: Actæon “Autonoë having seen her son Actæon changed into a stag, and then devoured by his dogs,”

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