Orithyïa

Role: daughter of Erectheus · First appears: Fable 61

Life events

Erectheus refuses Boreas’s request to marry Orithyïa.(Fable61)
- With: Boreas Erectheus
- “Boreas, not obtaining the consent of Erectheus, king of Athens, for the marriage of his daughter, Orithyïa”
Boreas abducts Orithyïa and carries her away into Thrace.(Fable61 · 📍 Thrace)
- With: Boreas
- “Boreas, not obtaining the consent of Erectheus, king of Athens, for the marriage of his daughter, Orithyïa, takes that princess in his arms, and carries her away into Thrace.”
Boreas marries Orithyïa after carrying her to the Ciconians.(Fable61 · 📍 Ciconians)
- With: Boreas
- “There, too, is the Actæan damsel made the wife of the cold sovereign”
Orithyïa gives birth to twin sons, Calaïs and Zethes.(Fable61 · 📍 Ciconians)
- With: Boreas Calaïs Zethes
- “bringing forth twins at a birth, who have the wings of their father, the rest {like} their mother.”

parent: Erectheus “Boreas, not obtaining the consent of Erectheus, king of Athens, for the marriage of his daughter, Orithyïa, takes that princess in his arms, and carries her away into Thrace.”
courtship with Boreas “Boreas, not obtaining the consent of Erectheus, king of Athens, for the marriage of his daughter, Orithyïa, takes that princess in his arms, and carries her away into Thrace.”
married with Boreas “Boreas, having said these words, or some not less high-sounding than these, shakes his wings, by the motion of which all the earth is fanned, and the wide sea becomes ruffled; and the lover, drawing his dusty mantle over the high tops {of mountains}, sweeps the ground, and, wrapt in darkness, embraces with his tawny wings Orithyïa, as she trembles with fear. As she flies, his flame, being agitated, burns more fiercely. Nor does the ravisher check the reins of his airy course, before he reaches the people and the walls of the Ciconians.[74] There, too, is the Actæan damsel made the wife of the cold sovereign, and {afterwards} a mother, bringing forth twins at a birth, who have the wings of their father, the rest {like} their mother.”
child: Calaïs “By her he has two sons, Calaïs and Zethes, who have wings, like their father, and afterwards embark with Jason in search of the Golden Fleece.”
child: Zethes “By her he has two sons, Calaïs and Zethes, who have wings, like their father, and afterwards embark with Jason in search of the Golden Fleece.”

siblings with Procris “Procris was (if perchance {the fame of} Orithyïa[109] may have more probably reached thy ears) the sister of Orithyïa, the victim of violence.”
parent: Erectheus “She was the daughter of Erectheus, king of Athens, and was carried off by Boreas, as already stated.”
with Boreas (Boreas abducted Orithyïa.) “She was the daughter of Erectheus, king of Athens, and was carried off by Boreas, as already stated.”

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