Iris

Family: Gods · Role: messenger of Juno · First appears: Fable 8

Fable 8

employer: Juno “Iris,[51] the messenger of Juno, clothed in various colors, collects the waters, and bears a supply {upwards} to the clouds.”

parent: Thaumas “Iris was the daughter of Thaumas and Electra, and the messenger of Juno.”
parent: Electra “Iris was the daughter of Thaumas and Electra, and the messenger of Juno.”

with Juno (Juno commands Iris as her messenger.) “Iris, most faithful messenger of my words, hasten quickly to the soporiferous court of Sleep, and command him, under the form of Ceyx who is dead, to send a vision to Halcyone, to relate her real misfortune.”
parent: Thaumas (The daughter of Thaumas is Iris, who has just commissioned Sleep.) “These, Sleep, the aged {God}, passes by, and selects Morpheus alone from all his brothers, to execute the commands of the daughter of Thaumas;”
with Sleep (Iris delivers Juno's command to Sleep.) “Sleep, thou repose of all things; Sleep, thou gentlest of the Deities; thou peace of the mind, from which care flies, who dost soothe the hearts {of men}, wearied with the toils of the day, and refittest them for labour, command a vision, that resembles in similitude the real shape, to go to Halcyone, in Herculean Trachyn, in the form of the king, and to assume the form of one that has suffered shipwreck. Juno commands this.”

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