Hippomenes

Role: youth · First appears: Fable 91

Life events

• Atalanta falls in love with Hippomenes after Cupid strikes her for the first time.(Fable91)
  • With: Atalanta Cupid
  • “Thus she said; and as one inexperienced, and smitten by Cupid for the first time, not knowing what she is doing, she is in love, and {yet} does not know that she is in love.”
• Venus gives Hippomenes three golden apples to aid him in the race.(Fable91 · 📍 Tamasenian field)
  • With: Venus
  • “Hence, by chance as I was coming, I carried three golden apples, that I had plucked, in my hand; and being visible to none but him, I approached Hippomenes, and I showed him what {was to be} the use of them.”
• Hippomenes defeats Atalanta by using Venus’s golden apples and wins the prize.(Fable91 · 📍 Tamasenian field)
  • With: Atalanta
  • “And that my narrative may not be more tedious than that race, the virgin was outrun, and the conqueror obtained the prize.”
• Cybele transforms Hippomenes and Atalanta into lions after they defile her sanctuary.(Fable91)
  • With: Atalanta Cybele
  • “This he entered, and he defiled the sanctuary by a forbidden crime. The sacred images turned away their eyes, and the Mother {of the Gods}, crowned with turrets,[61] was in doubt whether she should plunge these guilty ones in the Stygian stream. That seemed {too} light a punishment. Wherefore yellow manes cover their necks so lately smooth; their fingers are bent into claws, of their shoulders are made fore-legs;[62] their whole weight passes into their breasts.”

Fable 91

• courtship with Atalanta “Thus she said; and as one inexperienced, and smitten by Cupid for the first time, not knowing what she is doing, she is in love, and {yet} does not know that she is in love.”
• parent: Megareus “For my father was Megareus, Onchestius his;[57] Neptune was his grandsire; I am the great grandson of the king of the waves.”
• with Neptune (grandfather) “Neptune was his grandsire; I am the great grandson of the king of the waves.”
• patron: Venus “I entreat that Cytherea may favour my undertaking, and aid the passion that she has inspired {in me}.”
• with Cybele (Cybele causes the transformation of Hippomenes and Atalanta into lions.) “Venus, to punish his subsequent ingratitude towards her, raises his desires to such a pitch, that he incurs the resentment of Cybele, by defiling her shrine with the embraces of his mistress; on which they are both transformed into lions, and thenceforth draw the chariot of the Goddess.”

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