Phæstian — Minor Figures

4 figures from The Metamorphoses of Ovid who appear only briefly. Each keeps their own page; this one gathers them so they can be read together.

Iphis (grandfather)

grandfather of Iphis · first appears Fable 82

Fable 82 · with Iphis “The grandfather had been called Iphis. The mother rejoiced in that name because it was common {to both sexes}”
Fable 82 · younger kin: Iphis “The father performed his vows, and gave {the child} the name of its grandfather. The grandfather had been called Iphis.”

father of Ianthe · first appears Fable 82

Fable 82 · child: Ianthe “Iänthe, who was a virgin the most commended among all the women of Phæstus, for the endowments of her beauty; the daughter of the Dictæan Telestes.”
Fable 82 · with Iphis “what I {desire}, my father wishes, she herself wishes, and {so does} my destined father-in-law;”

wife and mother · first appears Fable 82

Fable 82 · married with Ligdus “For once on a time the Phæstian land[65] adjoining to the Gnossian kingdom produced one Ligdus, of obscure name, a man of the freeborn class of common people. Nor were his means any greater than his rank, but his life and his honour were untainted. He startled the ears of his wife in her pregnancy, with these words”
Fable 82 · with Isis “O Isis, thou who dost inhabit Parætonium,[75] and the Mareotic fields,[76] and Pharos,[77] and the Nile divided into its seven horns, give aid, I beseech thee, and ease me of my fears. Thee, Goddess, thee, I once beheld, and these thy symbols”

husband and father · first appears Fable 82

Fable 82 · married with Telethusa “For once on a time the Phæstian land[65] adjoining to the Gnossian kingdom produced one Ligdus, of obscure name, a man of the freeborn class of common people. Nor were his means any greater than his rank, but his life and his honour were untainted. He startled the ears of his wife in her pregnancy, with these words”
Fable 82 · with Ianthe “In the meantime the third year had {now} succeeded the tenth, when her father, O Iphis, promised to thee, in marriage, the yellow-haired Iänthe,”

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