Achæmenides

Family: Greek · Role: Ithacan · First appears: Fable 105

Life events

Achæmenides escaped isolation when a Trojan ship rescued him.(Fable105)
- “Concealing myself for many a day, and trembling at every sound, and both fearing death and {yet} desirous to die, satisfying hunger with acorns, and with grass mixed with leaves, alone, destitute, desponding, abandoned to death and destruction, after a length of time, I beheld a ship not far off; by signs I prayed for deliverance, and I ran down to the shore; I prevailed; and a Trojan ship received me, a Greek.”

friends with Macareus “Do thou too, dearest of my companions, relate thy adventures, and those of thy chief, and of the company, which, together with thee, entrusted {themselves} to the ocean.”
with Æneas (Æneas rescued Achæmenides, who reveres him as a father.) “Achæmenides says, “Again may I behold Polyphemus, and those jaws streaming with human blood, if my home and Ithaca be more delightful to me than this bark; if I venerate Æneas any less than my own father.”
enemies with Polyphemus “’Tis through him} that this life of mine did not fall into the jaws of the Cyclop; and though I were, even now, to leave the light of life, I should either be buried in a tomb, or, at least, not in that paunch {of his}.”

with Circe (Achæmenides is sent to Circe's palace.) “Achæmenides lands in the isle of Circe, and is sent to her palace with some of his companions.”

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