Oreas

Family: mountain deities · Role: messenger of Ceres · First appears: Fable 76

Life events

• Ceres sends Famine to punish Erisicthon for profaning her sacred grove.(Fable76 · 📍 Scythia)
  • With: Ceres Famine Erisicthon
  • “‘There is an icy region in the extreme part of Scythia, a dreary soil, a land, desolate, without corn {and} without trees; there dwell drowsy Cold, and Paleness, and Trembling, and famishing Hunger; order her to bury herself in the breast of this sacrilegious {wretch}.”

Fable 76

• with Ceres (Ceres commands Oreas to bring Famine to Erisicthon.) “in such words as these she addressed rustic Oreas, one of the mountain Deities: ‘There is an icy region in the extreme part of Scythia, a dreary soil, a land, desolate, without corn {and} without trees; there dwell drowsy Cold, and Paleness, and Trembling, and famishing Hunger; order her to bury herself in the breast of this sacrilegious {wretch}.”
• with Famine (Oreas delivers Ceres's commands to Famine.) “Soon as {Oreas} beheld her at a distance (for she did not dare come near her), she delivered the commands of the Goddess;”

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