Cypris

Family: gods · Role: goddess · First appears: Book III 1

Life events

• Hera and Athena enlist Cypris to make Aeetes’ daughter love Jason.(Book III 1)
  • With: Hera Athena
  • “Come, let us go to Cypris; let both of us accost her and urge her to bid her son”
• Cypris assigns Eros to charm Medea with love for Jason.(Book III 1 · 📍 Olympus)
  • With: Eros Medea Jason
  • “This I will give thee; and do thou strike with thy shaft and charm the daughter of Aeetes with love for Jason”
• Mopsus foretells that Cypris will help Jason win Medea’s aid in the contest.(Book III 7 · 📍 temple)
  • With: Mopsus Jason
  • “Do thou, son of Aeson, pass on to the temple, where thou wilt find the maiden; and very kind will her greeting be to thee through the prompting of Cypris, who will be thy helpmate in the contest, even as Phineus, Agenor’s son, foretold.”
• Butes swims toward the Sirens, but Cypris rescues him and carries him to the Lilybean height.(Book IV 7 · 📍 Lilybean height)
  • With: Butes
  • “Quickly would they have robbed him of his return then and there, but the goddess that rules Eryx, Cypris, in pity snatched him away, while yet in the eddies, and graciously meeting him saved him to dwell on the Lilybean height.”

Book III 1

• child: Eros “Come, let us go to Cypris; let both of us accost her and urge her to bid her son (if only he will obey) speed his shaft at the daughter of Aeetes”
• servant: Eros “Come, be ready to perform for me the task I will tell thee of, and I will give thee Zeus’ all-beauteous plaything—the one which his dear nurse Adrasteia made for him”
• with Erato (Erato shares Cypris's power over love.) “For thou sharest the power of Cypris, and by thy love-cares dost charm unwedded maidens; wherefore to thee too is attached a name that tells of love.”
• protégé: Hera (Cypris receives Hera as a guest.) “when she saw the goddesses before her, she stayed and called them within, and rose from her seat and placed them on couches.”
• protégé: Athena (Cypris receives Athena as a guest.) “when she saw the goddesses before her, she stayed and called them within, and rose from her seat and placed them on couches.”

Book III 7

• protégé: Jason (Cypris helps Jason in the contest.) “Do thou, son of Aeson, pass on to the temple, where thou wilt find the maiden; and very kind will her greeting be to thee through the prompting of Cypris, who will be thy helpmate in the contest, even as Phineus, Agenor’s son, foretold.”

Book IV 7

• protégé: Butes “but the goddess that rules Eryx, Cypris, in pity snatched him away, while yet in the eddies, and graciously meeting him saved him to dwell on the Lilybean height”

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