Nycteus

Family: mortal · Role: father of Nyctimene · First appears: Fable 24

Life events

• Nyctimene is transformed into an owl as punishment for incest with her father, Nycteus.(Fable24)
  • With: Nyctimene
  • “Nyctimene having entertained a criminal passion for her father, Nycteus, the Gods, to punish her incest, transform her into an owl.”

Fable 24

• child: Nyctimene (Nycteus is explicitly identified as Nyctimene's father.) “Nyctimene having entertained a criminal passion for her father, Nycteus, the Gods, to punish her incest, transform her into an owl.”
• with Nyctimene (Incestuous father-daughter relationship.) “Nyctimene having entertained a criminal passion for her father, Nycteus, the Gods, to punish her incest, transform her into an owl.”

Fable 55

• child: Antiope “Antiope was the daughter of Nycteus, a king of Bœotia.”

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