Galatea

Also known as: Nereid · Family: sea nymphs · Role: sea nymph · First appears: Fable 100

Life events

Polyphemus falls in love with Galatea, abandoning his cattle and caves.(Fable100)
- With: Polyphemus
- “For that savage, and one to be dreaded by the very woods, and beheld with impunity by no stranger, the contemner of great Olympus with the Gods {themselves}, {now} feels what love is; and, captivated with passion for me, he burns, forgetting his cattle and his caves.”
Polyphemus discovers Acis with Galatea and crushes him beneath a hurled mountain fragment.(Fable100)
- With: Polyphemus Acis
- “When the savage {monster} espied me, and Acis unsuspecting and apprehensive of no such thing; and he exclaimed:-- ‘I see you, and I shall cause this to be the last union for your affection.’”

parent: Nereus “But I, whose sire is Nereus, whom the azure Doris bore”
parent: Doris “But I, whose sire is Nereus, whom the azure Doris bore”
courtship with Acis “Acis was the son of Faunus and of the Nymph Symæthis, a great delight, indeed, to his father and his mother, yet a still greater to me. For the charming {youth} had attached me to himself alone”
admirer: Polyphemus “For why, rejecting the Cyclop, dost thou love Acis? And why prefer Acis to my embraces?”
with Scylla (daughter of Cratæis) (Scylla comforts Galatea.) “When, with her fingers like marble, the maiden had wiped these away, and had comforted the Goddess”
friends with Scylla (daughter of Cratæis) “‘Tell me, dearest,’ said she, ‘and conceal not {from me} ({for} I am true to thee) the cause of thy grief.’”

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