Evippe

Role: mother of the Pierides · First appears: Fable 49

Life events

• Pierus and Evippe’s nine daughters are transformed into birds after losing a singing contest.(Fable49)
  • With: Pierus
  • “Lately, too, did these being overcome in a dispute, increase the number of the birds.”

Fable 49

• married with Pierus “Evippe was the wife of Pierus”
• with Lucina (Lucina is invoked by Evippe during childbirth.) “Pierus, rich in the lands of Pella,[32] begot them; the Pæonian[33] Evippe[34] was their mother. Nine times did she invoke the powerful Lucina, being nine times in labor.”

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