Arcas

Family: Arcadian · Role: grandson of Lycaon · First appears: Fable 7

Life events

• Arcas encounters Calisto as a bear and nearly kills her, not recognizing his mother.(Fable22 · 📍 Erymanthian forests)
  • With: Calisto
  • “He drew back, and, in his ignorance, was alarmed at her keeping her eyes fixed upon him without ceasing; and, as she was desirous to approach still nearer, he would have pierced her breast with the wounding spear.”
• Jupiter prevents the killing and places Arcas and Calisto among the constellations.(Fable22 · 📍 the heavens)
  • With: Jupiter Calisto
  • “Omnipotent {Jove} averted this, and removed both them and {such} wickedness; and placed them, carried through vacant space with a rapid wind, in the heavens, and made them neighboring Constellations.”

Fable 7

• elder kin: Lycaon (Arcas is identified as Lycaon's grandson.) “Other writers say that it was Nyctimus, the son of Lycaon, or Arcas, his grandson, that was slain by him.”

Fable 22

• parent: Calisto “Her son, Arcas, not recognizing his mother in that shape, is about to kill her”
• with Juno (Arcas is a source of grief to Juno.) “There is {now} no reason for delay; and now the boy Arcas (that, too, was a grief to Juno) was born of the mistress {of her husband}.”
• with Jupiter (Jupiter saves Arcas from killing Calisto and places them among the stars.) “Omnipotent {Jove} averted this, and removed both them and {such} wickedness; and placed them, carried through vacant space with a rapid wind, in the heavens, and made them neighboring Constellations.”
• with Lycaon (Lycaon is Arcas's maternal grandfather.) “Behold! Arcas, the offspring of the daughter of Lycaon, ignorant of who is his parent, approaches her, thrice five birthdays being now nearly past;”

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