Cenchris

Also known as: Cenchreïs · Role: queen and mother of Myrrha · First appears: Fable 90

Fable 90

• child: Myrrha “Myrrha, the daughter of Cinyras and Cenchris, having conceived an incestuous passion for her own father”
• married with Cinyras “Cenchreïs, the king’s wife, is absent in that company, and attends the mysterious rites. Therefore, while his bed is without his lawful wife, the nurse, wickedly industrious, having found Cinyras overcome with wine”

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