Hermione

Role: wife of Cadmus · First appears: Fable 31

Life events

• Cadmus leaves Thebes in exile and reaches Illyria with Hermione.(Fable45 · 📍 Illyria)
  • With: Cadmus
  • “Forced by sorrow, and a succession of calamities, and the prodigies which, many in number, he had beheld, the founder flies from his city, as though the {ill}-luck of the spot, and not his own, pressed {hard} upon him, and driven, in a long series of wandering, he reaches the coast of Illyria, with his exiled wife.”
• Hermione transforms into a serpent beside Cadmus, and they become two gentle serpents.(Fable45 · 📍 Illyria)
  • With: Cadmus
  • “Whoever is by, (some attendants are present), is alarmed; but the crested snakes soothe them with their slippery necks, and suddenly they are two {serpents}, and in joined folds they creep along, until they enter the covert of an adjacent grove.”

Fable 31

• married with Cadmus “This came to pass when, having been expelled from his dominions by Zethus and Amphion, he retired to Illyria, and was there transformed into a serpent, a fate which was shared by his wife Hermione.”

Fable 45

• married with Cadmus “The misfortunes of his family oblige Cadmus to leave Thebes, and to retire with his wife Hermione to Illyria, where they are changed into serpents.”

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