Beroë
Family: Epidaurus · Role: nurse of Semele · First appears: Fable 33
Life events
- Juno disguises herself as Beroë to deceive Semele.(Fable33)
- With: Juno
- “She became Beroë[62] herself, the Epidaurian[63] nurse of Semele.”
Fable 33
- with Juno (Juno disguises herself as Beroë.) “Upon this she rises from her throne, and, hidden in a cloud of fiery hue, she approaches the threshold of Semele. Nor did she remove the clouds before she counterfeited an old woman, and planted gray hair on her temples; and furrowed her skin with wrinkles, and moved her bending limbs with palsied step, and made her voice that of an old woman. She became Beroë[62] herself, the Epidaurian[63] nurse of Semele.”
- with Semele (Beroë is identified as Semele's nurse.) “She became Beroë[62] herself, the Epidaurian[63] nurse of Semele.”
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Extracted from the original text of The Metamorphoses of Ovid. Made with Rho MD.