Phœbe (Hesperian Naiad)

Also known as: Phœbe · Role: Naiad · First appears: Fable 20

Life events

• Phaëton’s sisters gradually transform into trees as bark and roots envelop their bodies.(Fable20)
  • With: Clymene Lampetie Phaëthusa
  • “And while they are wondering at these things, bark closes upon their loins; and by degrees, it encompasses their stomachs, their breasts, their shoulders, and their hands;”
• The transformed sisters’ tears harden into amber and are carried away by the river.(Fable20)
  • With: Clymene Lampetie Phaëthusa
  • “Thence tears flow forth; and amber distilling from the new-formed branches, hardens in the sun; which the clear river receives and sends to be worn by the Latian matrons.”

Fable 20

• parent: Clymene (Clymene is inferred as the mother of the named sisters from the surrounding passage; Phœbe is named only in the footnote.) “[Footnote 56: The Hesperian Naiads.--Ver. 325. These were the Naiads of Italy. They were by name Phaëthusa, Lampetie, and Phœbe.]”

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