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This is: a list of characters in the: poem Metamorphoses by, Ovid. It contains more than 200 characters, "summaries of their roles." And information on where they appear. The descriptions vary in length. And comprehensiveness, "upgrading characters who were actually metamorphosed," who play a significant role. Or about whom a certain background knowledge is requiredββto understand theββMetamorphoses. The major Roman gods in general play significant roles in all of the "stories." But only their attributes are listed under their own nameβtheir specific roles are summarized under the individual involved characters' names (e.g. Apollo's role in the myth of Hyacinthus is listed under Hyacinthus).
Charactersβ»
Name | Role | Appearance(s) in Metamorphoses (Book: verses) | Ref(s) |
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Abaris | One of Phineus' men at Perseus' wedding. | V: 137 | |
Achelous | Father of the Sirens and patron deity of the Achelous River. | V: 552, VIII: 549β727, IX: 3-413 | |
Achilles | Son of Peleus and the nymph Thetis. Achilles was foreseen an early death if he joined the Greeks in the Trojan War so his mother disguised him as a girlββto protect him. Ulysses, however, discovered him and "convinced him to join the battle." | VIII: 309, XI: 265, XII: 73-615, XIII: 30-597, XV: 856 | |
Acis | Son of Faunus and a river nymph. The lover of Galatea (deity). | XIII: 750-896 | |
Acmon | One of the Greek hero Diomedes' men from Pleuron, Aetolia. Metamorphosed into a bird. | XIV: 484-505 | |
Acoetes | Bacchus' alias towards Pentheus. Acoetes was a Tyrrhenian man from Lydia. | III: 582-696 | |
Actaeon | Grandson of Cadmus. He accidentally saw Diana naked and was metamorphosed into a stag as a punishment. | III: 146-721 | |
Adonis | Son of King Cinyras of Cyprus and his daughter Myrrha. Beloved by the goddesses Venus and Proserpina. He was to spend one third of the year with each of them β the last part was at his own disposal, which he used together with Venus. Adonis died during boar hunt and Venus' grief showed itself as the delicate flower anemone. | X: 529-730 | |
Aeacus | Son of Jupiter and the nymph Aegina, father of Telamon, Peleus, and Phocus, and king of Aegina. Aeacus became one of the judges in the Underworld after his death. | VII: 472β668, VIII: 4, IX: 435β440, XI: 227β250, XIII: 25-33 | |
AeΓ«tes | Son of Sol, father of Medea, and king of Colchis. | VII: 9-170 | |
Aegeus | Son of Pandion, husband of Medea, father of Theseus, and king of Athens. Aegeus almost killed Theseus at Medea's urging. | VII: 402β502, IX: 448, XI: 663, XII: 342, XV: 856 | |
Aeneas | Son of Venus and Anchises (of the Dardanian dynasty). Aeneas was one of the few Trojan survivors after the Trojan War who was not enslaved. He fled with his father, Anchises, on his back. Escaping to Italy with the help of his mother his group, the Aeneids, became the progenitors of the Romans. Upon his death he was deified as Jupiter Indiges by request of his mother. | XIII: 624β681, XIV: 78-603, XV: 437-861 | |
Aesacus | Son of King Priam. Mourning the death of his lover he was metamorphosed into a bird. | XI: 763, XII: 1 | |
Aesculapius | God of medicine and healing. Son of Apollo and Coronis. | II: 629-654 | |
Aeson | Father of Jason and king of Iolcus, Thessaly. He was usurped the throne from his brother Pelias. | VII: 60-303 | |
Agamemnon | Son of Atreus and king of Mycene. He led the Greeks in the Trojan War. | XII: 626, XIII: 216β655, XV: 855 | |
Aglaulus | One of the three daughters of Cecrops. | II: 559-819 | |
Ajax the Great | Grandson of Aeacus and son of Telamon. Greek hero in the Trojan War. | XII: 624, XIII: 2-390 | |
Ajax the Lesser | Son of OΓ―leus and Greek hero in the Trojan War. Among other things known for his raping the Trojan prophetess and princess Cassandra at the temple of Apollo. | XII: 622, XIII: 356, XIV: 468 | |
Alcmene | Queen of Tiryns, wife of Amphitryon, and mother of Hercules by Jupiter. | VI: 112, IX: 23-394 | |
Alcyone | Daughter of Aelous and wife of Ceyx. | XI: 384-746 | |
Althaea | Daughter of Thestius, wife of Oeneus, and mother of Meleager. | VIII: 446-531 | |
Anaxarete | Cyprian maid who refused her suitor Iphis. Unmoved, even as he committed suicide, Venus turned her to stone. | XIV: 698-748 | |
Andromeda | Daughter of Cepheus and Cassiopeia. She was chained to a rock as a sacrifice for her mother's bragging, but was saved by Perseus, whom she later married. | IV: 670β739, V: 152 | |
Anius | Priest of Apollo and king of Delos. | XIII: 632-679 | |
Apollo | God of poetry, music, healing, and divination. Son of Jupiter and Latona and a great archer. | I: 455, II: 543β677, III: 8β421, V: 328, VI: 250β383, VII: 324β389, VIII: 15β31, IX: 332β663, X: 132β209, XI: 58-412, XIII: 174β715, XIV: 133, XV: 630-865 | |
Aquilo | The Northern wind. Roman equivalent of the Greek Boreas. | I: 64, VI: 682β702, VII: 695, XII: 24, XIII: 418, XV: 471 | |
Arachne | Daughter of Idmon. Boasted she could weave better than Minerva and won over her in a weaving contest. Jealous, the goddess metamorphosed Arachne into a spider. | VI: 5-148 | |
Arcas | Son of Jupiter and the nymph Callisto. Jealous of Callisto, Juno metamorphosed her into a bear, which Arcas killed, not knowing it was his mother. Jupiter took pity on the two and metamorphosed them into the constellations known as Ursa Major and Ursa Minor (the big bear and the little bear). | II: 469-496 | |
Arethusa | Nymph and spring. She fled from the river god Alpheus to Syracusa, Sicily. | V: 409-642 | |
Argus | Monster with a hundred eyes and the protector of Io. | I: 625β720, II: 533 | |
Atalanta (huntress) | Arcadian huntress. | VIII: 317-426 | |
Atalanta (princess) | Daughter of the Boeotian King Schoeneus. | X: 560-669 | |
Athamas | Son of Aeolus and husband of Ino (daughter of Cadmus). | III: 564, IV: 420β517, XIII: 919 | |
Athis | Indian demigod, one of Phineus' warriors at Perseus' wedding. | V: 47-62 | |
Atlas | Titan, son of Iapetus. He was metamorphosed into the North-West-African Atlas Mountains after he supported the Titans against the Olympian gods during the Titanomachy. He holds Uranus (the sky) on his shoulders. | I: 682, II: 296β742, IV: 628β772, VI: 174, IX: 273, XV: 149 | |
Aurora | Goddess of dawn and wife of Tithonus. Aurora is the Roman equivalent of the Greek Eos. | II: 112β144, III: 149β600, IV: 629, V: 440, VI: 47, VII: 100β835, IX: 421, XIII: 576β621, XIV: 228, XV: 665 | |
Autolycus | Son of Mercury and Chione and grandfather of Ulysses through his daughter, Anticlea. | VIII: 738, XI: 313 | |
Bacchus | God of wine, both its intoxicating effects as well as its social and beneficent influences. Son of Jupiter and Semele. He is viewed as the promoter of peace, a lawgiver, and a lover of peace. Roman equivalent of the Greek Dionysus. | III: 316β733, IV: 3β613, V: 329, VI: 125β598, VII: 294β359, XI: 85β134, XII: 578, XIII: 639β651, XV: 114β413 | |
Battus | Old man from Pylos. | II: 688 | |
Baucis | Wife of Philemon. | VIII: 631-714 | |
Boreas | The Northern wind. Greek name of the Roman Aquilo. | I: 64, VI: 682β702, VII: 695, XII: 24, XIII: 418, XV: 471 | |
Byblis | Daughter of Miletus. Byblis fell incestuously in love with Caunus, but as she could not get him she tried to kill herself, but was metamorphosed into a nymph. | IX: 447β654 | |
Cadmus | Son of Agenor (who was king of Tyre, Phoenicia), brother of Europa, husband of Venus' daughter Harmonia, and the founder of Thebes. Cadmus was sent out to find and return his sister, Europa, to Phoenicia after she had been abducted by Jupiter. | III: 3β64, IV: 472β595, VI: 177 | |
Caeneus/Caenis | Born the daughter β Caenis β of the Lapith Elatus. She was metamorphosed into an invulnerable, male hero β Caeneus β by Neptunus. | VIII: 305, XII: 172-514 | |
Calchas | Son of Thestor. Calchas was the Argive augur of the Greeks in the Trojan War. | XII: 19-27 | |
Calliope | Muse and mother of Orpheus. | V: 338, X: 148 | |
Callisto | Nymph and daughter of Lycaon. One of the followers of Diana. Raped by Jupiter, transformed into a bear and killed by her son who was unaware of her new form. | II: 443-508 | |
Canens | Nymph, daughter of Janus and Venilia, and wife of King Picus. Her husband was metamorphosed into a woodpecker by Circe, because he scorned her love, and when Canens could not find her metamorphosed husband she killed herself. | XIV: 338-434 | |
Cassandra | Daughter of King Priam of Troy. She was a priestess of Apollo, gifted with the ability to predict the future. But cursed so nobody would ever believe her prophecies. Cassandra was raped by Ajax the Lesser and taken as a concubine for Agamemnon at the fall of Troy, but they were later both killed by Agamemnons wife, Clytemnestra. | XIII: 410, XIV: 468 | |
Caunus | Son of Miletus and brother of Byblis. Byblis fell incestuously in love with Caunus, but as she could not get him she tried to kill herself, but was metamorphosed into a nymph. | IX: 453-633 | |
Cecrops | The mythical founder Athens. He is often depicted with his lower body as a snake. | II: 555β784, VI: 70, VII: 485, VIII: 550, XV: 427 | |
Cephalus | Grandson of Aeolus and husband of Procris. Cephalus was an Athenian noble who accidentally killed his wife. | VI: 681, VII: 493β865, VIII: 4 | |
Ceres | Goddess of agriculture, grain crops, fertility and motherly relationships. Roman equivalent of the Greek Demeter. | I: 123, V: 110β660, VI: 118, VII: 439, VIII: 274β814, IX: 422, X: 74-431, XI: 112β122, XIII: 639, XV: 122 | |
Ceyx | Husband of Alcyone and king of Thrace. He died in a shipwreck. | XI: 271-740 | |
Chariclo | The mother of OcyrhoΓ« by Chiron. | II: 636 | |
Charybdis | Daughter of Neptunus and Gaia. Charybdis was once a naiad, but was metamorphosed into a monster at the Sicilian coast by the Strait of Messina, opposite of the sea monster Scylla. Charybdis was a maelstrom which sucked any ship passing too close by into the deeps. | VII: 63, VIII: 121, XIII: 730, XIV: 75 | |
Chione | Daughter of Daedalion. | XI: 301 | |
Chiron | Centaur, son of Philyra and Saturnus and father of OcyrhoΓ«. Chiron was known for his wisdom and raised many heroes and godsons. Chiron was immortal since he was son of the Titan Saturnus, but after being hit by one of Hercules' arrows by accident he was poisoned by the Lernaean Hydra's blood. He then asked for death and was given it. When he died he was metamorphosed into the constellation known as Centaurus. | II: 630β676, VI: 126 | |
Cinyras | Son of Pygmalion's daughter Paphos, husband of Cenchreis, father of Myrrha and Adonis, and king of Cyprus. He was deceived and seduced by Myrrha from which the result was Adonis. | X: 298-472 | |
Cipus | Roman legendary commander. | XV: 565-621 | |
Circe | Daughter of Sol and Perse. Circe was a goddess skilled in magic. | IV: 205, XIII: 968, XIV: 9β446, XV: 717 | |
Clymene | Daughter of Tethys, the wife the Ethiopian King Merops, and the mother of Phaethon and the Heliades by Sol. | I: 756β766, II: 19-334, IV: 204 | |
Corone | Daughter of Coroneus og Phocis. She was attacked by Neptunus, but was delivered from him by Minerva, who metamorphosed her into a crow. | II: 547-595 | |
Cupid | God of desire and erotic love, son of Mars and Venus. Roman equivalent of the Greek Eros. | I: 455β463, IV: 321, V: 374β379, VII: 73, IX: 482-543 | |
Cyane | Nymph and spring in Syracus, Sicily. | V: 409-470 | |
CyΓ‘neΓ« (or Cyanee) | Nymph, daughter of Maeander and mother of Caunus and Byblis by Miletus. | IX: 452 | |
Cybele | Phrygian goddess, the Mother of the gods. She is depicted with a turreted crown. | X: 696β704, XIV: 535-546 | |
Cygnus (1) | Son of Sthenelous and friend and relative of Phaethon. | II: 367, XII: 581 | |
Cygnus (2) | Son of Apollo and the nymph Hyrie. A spoiled youth he had been given tamed animals by Phylius, but when he was denied a bull he tried to kill himself, and was metamorphosed into a swan. | VII: 371 | |
Cygnus (3) | Son of Neptunus. He was a Trojan hero, invulnerable because he was the son of Neptunus, but still mortal. | XII: 71-169 | |
Cyllarus | Centaur, husband of Hylonome. He dearly loved his centaur wife, but participating in the battle against the Lapiths he was fatally wounded by a spear. He died in the arms of Hylonome, who took her own life shortly afterwards to join him. | XII: 393-420 | |
Cyparissus | Loved by Apollo, he was given a tame deer by the god, which he accidentally killed with a javelin. | X: 120-130 | |
Daedalion | Brother of Ceyx. | XI: 295-340 | |
Daedalus | Architect, inventor, and the father of Icarus. He constructed wings made of feathers and wax for him and his son to escape from Crete. | VIII: 159β260, IX: 742 | |
Daphne | Nymph, daughter of Peneus. She was metamorphosed into a laurel to escape the amorous god Apollo. As a sign of his love for her, Apollo wears the laurel around his head. | I: 452-547 | |
DeΓ―anira | Daughter of Oeneus, sister of Meleager, wife of Hercules. Famous for unwittingly killing Hercules with the Shirt of Nessus. | VIII: 542, IX: 8-137 | |
Deucalion | Son of Prometheus. | I: 318β391, VI: 120, VII: 356 | |
Diana | Goddess of the hunt, associated with the Moon, daughter of Jupiter and Latona, and sister of Apollo. Roman equivalent of the Greek Artemis. | I: 476β694, II: 414β425, III: 156β251, IV: 304, V: 329β641, VII: 746β754, VIII: 272β579, IX: 90, X: 536, XI: 322, XII: 35-267, XIII: 185, XIV: 331, XV: 196-549 | |
Diomedes (Thracian king) | Son of Mars and Cyrene and king of Thrace. He was known for his man-eating horses. Diomedes was killed by Hercules. | IX: 195 | |
Diomedes (Greek hero) | Son of Tydeus and friend of Ulysses. Greek hero in the Trojan War where he wounded Venus when the goddess interfered in the battle. | XII: 622, XIII: 68-351, XIV: 457β512, XV: 769-806 | |
Dis | God of the underworld. Roman equivalent of Pluto. | II: 261, IV: 438β510, V: 356β569, VII: 249, XV: 534 | |
Dryope | Daughter of King Eurytus of Oechalia and half-sister of IolΓ«. | IX: 331-364 | |
Egeria | Nymph, wife of Numa, the second king of Rome. | XV: 547-550 | |
Echo | Nymph who could only repeat others, not talk for herself. She fell in love with Narcissus, but was rejected as everyone else. In her heartache she faded away until nothing was left, but her voice. | III: 358-507 | |
Erysichthon | Son of Triopas and king of Thessaly. He was punished with insatiable hunger for killing nymph and sold everything he owned, including his daughter, Mestra. Nothing could satisfy his hunger and eventually he ate himself to death. | VIII: 739-823 | |
Europa | Daughter of the Phoenician King Agenor, sister of Cadmus, and the mother of Minos by Jupiter. | II: 844β868, III: 3β258, VI: 103, VIII: 23-120 | |
Eurydice | Nymph, wife of Orpheus. She was killed by a snakebite, prompting Orpheus to seek a way to bring her back to life, which he attempted but failed at. | X: 8-48, XI: 63-66 | |
Eurytus (1) | Father of Hippasus. | VIII: 371 | |
Father of IolΓ« and Dryope and king of Oechalia, Euboea. | IX: 356-363 | ||
Eurytus (2) | Centaur who tried to kidnap Hippodame at her and Theseus' wedding, but was killed by the latter in the attempt. | XII: 220-238 | |
Galanthis | One of Alcmene's maids. | IX:306-323 | |
Galatea (deity) | The nereid (sea-nymph) who fell in love with the spirit of the Acis River in Sicily, Acis. | XIII: 738-880 | |
Galatea (statue) | A statue carved out of ivory by Pygmalion. Pygmalion fell in love with Galatea and after Pygmalion had sacrificed to Venus (mythology) during her festival, Galatea was made into a real woman. | X: 247-297 | |
Ganymede | Son of the Dardanian King Tros and brother of Ilus (the founder of Ilion) and Assaracus (the grandfather of Aeneas). | X: 155β160, XI: 756 | |
Glaucus | Boeotic fisherman who was metamorphosed into a sea god. | VII: 233, XIII: 906β916, XIV: 11-68 | |
Hecuba | The wife and queen of King Priam of Troy. | XI: 761, XIII: 404-620 | |
Hercules | Demigod, son of Jupiter and the mortal Alcmene. Famous for his strength, solving the twelve labors set by King Eurystheus. He was killed unwittingly by his wife DeΓ―anira using the Shirt of Nessus. Hercules is the Roman equivalent of the Greek Heracles. | VII: 364β410, VIII: 542, IX: 13-400, XI: 213β626, XII: 309β575, XIII: 51-401, XV: 8-284 | |
Hermaphroditus | Son of Venus and Mercury. He was born as a handsome boy, but was metamorphosed into an androgynous being when he was fused with the nymph Salmacis. | IV: 291-383 | |
Herse | One of the three daughters of Cecrops, her sisters being Aglaulus and Pandrosus. | II: 559-809 | |
Hersilia | Wife and queen of Romulus. Deified as Hora. | XIV: 831-847 | |
Hesperia | Aesacus' lover. | XI: 768 | |
Hippodame | Daughter of Adrastos and wife of Theseus. | XII: 210 | |
Hippolytus | Son of Theseus and the Amazon Queen Antiope and stepson of Phaedra. Phaedra tried to seduce Hippolytus, but as he rejected her she convinced Theseus that Hippolytus had raped her. This made Theseus use one of his three wishes to curse Hippolytus which eventually killed him. Hippolytus was deified as Virbius. | XV: 497-543 | |
Hippomenes | Son of Megareus and descendant of Neptunus through his grandfather, Onchestus. Raced and won over Atalante (the princess) with the help of Venus, thereby winning Atalante's hand. They were both metamorphosed into lions after having had intercourse in a temple. | X: 575-668 | |
Hyacinthus | A beautiful boy loved by Apollo. One day as Apollo was throwing a discus and Hyacinthus ran to catch it, he was struck by the discus and died. Apollo made the hyacinth in his memory. | X: 162β217, XIII: 396 | |
Hylonome | Female centaur. She was present at the battle against the Lapiths, where she lost her husband, the centaur Cyllarus. Heartbroken, she committed suicide to join him | XII: 405-423 | |
Ianthe | Cretan girl who was engaged to Iphis (Cretan girl). | IX: 715-797 | |
Icarus | Son of Daedalus. Daedalus constructed wings made of feathers and wax for him and his son to escape from Crete. Icarus flew too close to the Sun which made the wax melt and Icarus fell to his death in the sea. | VIII: 196-235 | |
Idmon | Father of Arachne. | VI: 8-133 | |
Ilia | Daughter of Numitor and descendant of Aeneas. She was by Mars the mother of the twins Romulus and Remus, the two founders of Rome. Her alternative name is Rhea Silvia. | XIV: 780-823 | |
Inachus | River deity in Argolis and father of Io. | I: 583β645, IX: 686 | |
Ino | Daughter of Cadmus and queen of Thebes. Deified as Leucothea. | III: 313β722, IV: 417-543 | |
Io | Nymph, daughter of Inachus. Io was raped by Jupiter and in jealousy Juno metamorphosed Io into a cow. Io wandered until she reached Egypt where she prayed that the punishment would end. Jupiter heard her and calmed Juno. Juno metamorphosed Io into a human form again, but in the process also deified her as the Egyptian goddess Isis. | I: 628β747, II: 524, IX: 686 | |
Iphigenia | Daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra. | XII: 30β34, XIII: 185 | |
Iphis (Cretan) | Daughter of Telethusa and Ligdus. She was raised as a boy and fell in love with the girl Ianthe. Iphis prayed that the women could be, married so the Egyptian goddess Isis metamorphosed Iphis into a man. | IX: 668-797 | |
Iphis (Cyprian) | Young man in Cyprus. When he was rejected by Anaxarete whom he loved, he committed suicide. | XIV: 698-753 | |
Iris | Goddess of the rainbow and daughter of Thaumas. She was the messenger of Juno. | I: 271, IV: 479, VI: 63, XI: 585β622, XIV: 85-838 | |
Isis | Egyptian goddess recognized by the Greeks and Romans. In the Metamorphoses she is identified with the re-metamorphosed Io. | I: 747, IX: 686-773 | |
Itys | Son of Procne and Tereus. Itys was fed to Tereus by his mother in revenge for Tereus' raping her sister, Philomela, and cutting out her tongue. | VI: 437-658 | |
Ixion | Father of Pirithous, and king of the Lapiths in Thessaly. He was invited to the banquet of the Olympian gods, but instead of being grateful he tried to rape his hostess, Juno. Juno transformed herself into a cloud from which the centaurs were born. Ixion was punished in Tartarus by being bound to an ever-spinning wheel of fire. | IV: 461β464, VIII: 403, IX: 123, X: 42, XII: 210-504 | |
Jason | Son of King Aeson of Iolcus, Thessaly. Jason was sent to Colchis to get the golden fleece by his uncle Pelias, who had usurped the throne from Aeson. For this expedition Jason collected a large number of heroes, the Argonauts, and let the ship Argo build. | VII: 5β397, VIII: 302-349 | |
Juno | Sister and wife of Jupiter. Roman equivalent of the Greek Hera. | I: 270β738, II: 435β531, III: 256β362, IV: 173β549, VI: 89-428, VIII: 220, IX: 15-796, X: 506, XI: 578β648, XII: 504, XIII: 574, XIV: 85-829, XV: 164-774 | |
Jupiter | King of the gods, and the god of sky and thunder. Roman equivalent of the Greek Zeus. | I: 106β749, II: 60-836, III: 6β363, IV: 3β799, V: 11-564, VI: 51-801, VII: 367β801, VIII: 50-703, IX: 24-499, X: 148β161, XI: 41-756, XII: 11-561, XIII: 5β857, XIV: 594β807, XV: 12-871 | |
Laomedon | Father of Priam and king of Troy. | VI: 96, XI: 196β757, XIII: 417 | |
Latona | Daughter of the Titan Coeus and by Jupiter mother of Apollo and Diana, whom she gave birth to in Delos. Latona is the Roman name of the Greek Leto. | VI: 159β346, VII: 384 | |
Latreus | Centaur who killed Halesus, but was shortly after killed by Caeneus. | 462-493 | |
Lethaea | Wife of Olenus. She boasted that she was more beautiful than any god and was turned to stone. Her husband chose to share her fate though he could have avoided it. | X: 69 | |
Leucothea | Name of the deified form of Ino (she was metamorphosed into a sea goddess). | IV: 542 | |
Lichas | DeΓ―anira's servant who brought Hercules the poisoned Shirt of Nessus. | V::: 272 | |
Lycaon | King of Arcadia. | I: 165β221, II: 495-526 | |
Macareus (1) | One of the Lapiths. | XII: 452 | |
Macareus (2) | Son of Neritus and one of Ulysses' men. | XIV: 158-441 | |
Mars | God of war. Roman equivalent of the Greek Ares. | III: 32-132, IV: 171, VI: 70, VII: 101, XII: 90, XIV: 806β818, XV: 863 | |
Medea | Daughter of King Aeetes of Colchis. She protected Jason from the tasks her father set him, and eventually married him. When he divorced her, she went insane, killed her old family, and married Aegeus. | VII: 10-424 | |
Medusa | The most famous of the three Gorgons, daughters of the sea god Phorcys. Medusa was a terrible monster that turned people to stone if they beheld her, but was killed by Perseus and from her blood sprang Pegasus, the winged horse. | IV: 616β801, V: 69-248, VI: 119 | |
Meleager | Foster son of King Oeneus of Calydon, son of Althaea by Mars, and husband of Cleopatra. | VIII: 270β515, IX: 149 | |
Memnon | Son of Aurora and Tithonus and king of Ethiopia, allied with Troy. | XIII: 278-600 | |
Mercury | Messenger of the gods, especially of Jupiter. Son of the Pleiade Maia and Jupiter. Roman equivalent of the Greek Hermes. | I: 669β713, II: 685β834, IV: 187β754, VIII: 627, XI: 303β307, XIII: 146 | |
Midas | King of Phrygia. Midas was granted the ability to turn everything he touched into gold by Bacchus, but when he saw that this ability made him unable to eat and drink he hated his new-gained power. Bacchus advised him to wash the magic off in the river Pactolus. Later Midas was called upon to decide whether Pan. Or Apollo played the most beautiful music, but doubting that Apollo was the best he was given donkey ears. | XI: 92-194 | |
Minerva | Virgin goddess of the war, art, wisdom, and science, daughter of Jupiter, and protector of Athens. Roman equivalent of the Greek Athena. | II: 709β835, IV: 33-799, V: 250β334, VI: 23β43, VIII: 252, XIII: 344, XIV: 475, XV: 709 | |
Minos | Son of Jupiter and Europa, king of Crete, husband of PasiphaΓ«, and father of Ariadne. After his death he became judge of the dead in the underworld. | VII: 456β504, VIII: 6β262, IX: 437-445 | |
Minotaurus | A cannibalistic monster, half bull and half man, he was the issue of Queen PasiphaΓ«'s affair with a bull, which had been sent to Crete by Neptunus to be sacrificed, but was spared by Minos. Daedalus created a plinth the shape of a heifer which PasiphaΓ« could hide inside, in that way making the bull cover her. Minotaurus was killed by Theseus. | VIII: 133-169 | |
Morpheus | God of dreams. | XI: 635-671 | |
Myrrha | Granddaughter of Pygmalion, daughter of King Cinyras of Cyprus, and mother of Adonis by Cinyras. She tricked her father into intercourse, but was discovered and fled. After having been on the run for 9 months she asked the gods not to be seen among those alive/dead, and was thus metamorphosed into the myrrh tree. A month later the tree gave birth to Adonis. | X: 317-476 | |
Myscelus | Son of Alemon and founder of Crotona. | XV: 19-47 | |
Narcissus | Son of Liriope. He fell in love with his own reflection and wasted away until death. When he died he was metamorphosed into the plant of the same name. | III: 346-413 | |
Neptunus | God of the sea and waters. Brother of Jupiter. Roman equivalent of the Greek Poseidon. | I: 275β330, II: 270β573, IV: 532β798, V: 370, VI: 71-115, VIII: 851β867, X: 606, XI: 202, XII: 25-585, XIII: 854 | |
Nessus | Centaur famously known for being mortally wounded by Hercules, and on his deathbed deceiving Hercules' wife, DeΓ―anira, into using his tainted blood to kill Hercules. | IX: 101β153, XII: 308-454 | |
Nestor | Son of Neleus and king of Pylos. | VIII: 313β365, XII: 169β578, XIII: 63, XV: 65 | |
Niobe | Daughter of Tantalus and wife of King Amphion of Thebes. Boasted that she had more children than Latona. In revenge the goddess' two children, Diana and Apollo, killed all of Niobe's. In grief she wept until she was turned to stone. | VI: 148-298 | |
Numa | King of Rome after Romulus. | XV: 3-479 | |
Nyctimene | A woman from Lesbos. Metamorphosed by Minerva into an owl after she had had intercourse with her father. | II: 590 | |
OcyrhoΓ« | Daughter of Chiron and Chariclo; possessed by Apollo in his quality as god of prophecy. She was metamorphosed into a mare. | II: 637-675 | |
Olenus (1) | Father of Tectaphus the Lapith. | XII: 433 | |
Olenus (2) | Husband to Lethaea with whom he was turned to stone. | X: 68 | |
Ops | Sister and wife of Saturnus, and by him mother of Jupiter and the Olympian gods. Roman equivalent of the Greek Rhea. | IX: 497 | |
Orithyia | Daughter of King Erechtheus of Athens. | VI: 683, VII: 694-695 | |
Orpheus | Son of Apollo and the Muse Calliope. Legendary musician, poet, and prophet. | X: 3-79, XI: 1-93 | |
Pan | God of shepherds and the forest with a goat's beard, -horns, and -legs. | I: 699β707, VI: 329, XI: 147β171, XIV: 515 | |
Paphos | The daughter of Pygmalion and Galathea, mother of Cinyras, and grandmother of Myrrha and Adonis. | X: 297 | |
Paris | Son of Hecuba and King Priam of Troy. He was famous for seducing and abducting Helen of Sparta (later Helen of Troy) with the help of Venus. Helen's husband, Menelaus, along with Agamemnon invoked The Oath of Tyndareus, thereby starting the Trojan War. | VII: 631, XII: 4β605, XIII: 200β501, XV: 805 | |
Pegasus | Winged horse, born from the blood of Medusa. Its clops made the spring Hippocrene by Helicon well up. | IV: 786, V: 257β312, VI: 120 | |
Peleus | Son of Aeacus, brother of Telamon, half-brother of Phocus, and father of Achilles. | VII: 476β669, VIII: 3β380, XI: 217β397, XII: 82-387, XIII: 151β155, XV: 856 | |
Pelias | Brother of Aeson, from whom he usurped the throne of Iolcus. He later sent Aeson's son Jason to get the golden fleece. | VII: 298-343 | |
Pentheus | Son of Echion and king of Thebes. | III: 524β730, IV: 22-429 | |
Perdix | Nephew of Daedalus. | VIII: 251 | |
Perseus | Son of DanaΓ« and Jupiter. Jupiter fell into DanaΓ«'s womb as a golden rain while she was imprisoned in a tower by her father, Acrisius, because it had been foreseen that his daughter's son would cause his death. When Perseus was born, Acrisius put him and his mother in a coffin which he set afloat. The coffin drifted to Seriphus where King Polydectes later wanted DanaΓ«. In order to get rid of Perseus he sent him on the seemingly impossible quest to slay the gorgon Medusa, but Perseus borrowed an invisibility hat, winged sandals, and a scimitar from Mercury and was helped by Minerva. | IV: 611β792, V: 1-250 | |
Phaedra | Daughter of PasiphaΓ« and Minos. | XV: 500 | |
Phaethon | Son of Sol and Clymene. | I: 750β776, II: 19-400, IV: 246, X: 262, XII: 581 | |
Philemon | Husband of Baucis. | VIII: 631-714 | |
Philomela | Daughter of Pandion and sister of Procne. She was raped by her brother-in-law, Tereus. To make sure she did not tell Procne he muted her by cutting out her tongue and imprisoned her in a forest. A year later she was rescued by her sister and in revenge the sisters fed Tereus his and Procne's son, Itys. Philomela was metamorphosed into a bird along with her sister and brother-in-law. | VI: 451-657 | |
Phineus (1) | Brother of Cepheus and betrothed to Andromeda before Perseus. Petrified by the latter. | V: 8-231 | |
Phineus (2) | Blind king of Salmydessos, Thrace. His sons were seduced by his queen, their stepmother, so he blinded them. As a punishment the harpies would plague him by stealing or tainting his food. He was relieved from the harpies by Zetes and Calais. | VII: 2 | |
Phocus | Son of Aeacus and the nymph Psamanthe and half-brother of Peleus and Telamon. | VII: 477β796, XI: 267-381 | |
Picus | Son of Saturnus and king of Laurentum near Rome. | XIV: 320-397 | |
Pirithous | Son of Ixion, friend of Theseus, and king of the Lapiths. | VIII: 303β567, XII: 210-332 | |
Polydectes | King of Seriphus. He ordered that Perseus kill the gorgon Medusa to get him apart from his mother, whom Polydectes wanted. | V: 243-249 | |
Polydorus | Son of Queen Hecuba and King Priam of Troy. | XIII: 431-629 | |
Polymestor | King of Thrace. | XIII: 430-554 | |
Polyphemus | Cyclops, son of Neptunus. | XIII: 744β779, XIV: 167-249 | |
Polyxena | Daughter of Queen Hecuba and King Priam of Troy. | XIII: 448-483 | |
Pomona | Italic nymph. | XIV: 623-767 | |
Priam | Son of Laomedon, husband of Hecuba, and last king of Troy. | XI: 758, XII; 607, XIII: 99-519, XIV: 474, XV: 437 | |
Procne | Daughter of Pandion, wife of Tereus, sister of Philomela, and mother of Itys. She feeds Itys to Tereus after he has raped Philomela and cut out her tongue. She was metamorphosed into a bird along with her sister and husband. | VI: 428-653 | |
Procris | Daughter of Erechteus of Athens and wife of Cephalus, who accidentally kills her with his hunting spear (which never misses) because he mistook her for a boar. | VI: 681, VII: 694-845 | |
Proserpina | Daughter of Ceres and Jupiter, wife of Pluto, and queen of the Underworld. She is kidnapped by Pluto and eats of the pomegranate seeds while in the Underworld. She is sentenced by Jove to spend half the year with Ceres, half with Pluto. Roman equivalent of the Greek Persephone. | II: 261, V: 377-555 | |
Pygmalion | Sculptor from Cyptrus, father of Paphos, grandfather of Cinyras, and great-grandfather of Myrrha and Adonis. A bachelor, Pygmalion sculpts a beautiful woman out of ivory. He falls in love with this statue and prays to Venus to bring it to life. She grants his prayer, and the statue, Galatea, has a daughter with him, Paphos. | X: 243-296 | |
Pyramus | Young man from Babylon who is the boyfriend of Thisbe whom he is not allowed to marry. | IV: 55-163 | |
Pyreneus | A tyrant who chases the muses. | V: 274 | |
Pyrrha | Daughter of Epimetheus (the brother of Prometheus) and wife of her cousin Deucalion. | I: 319-395 | |
Pythagoras | Ionian philosopher and mathematician from Samos. He is described as a wise man who had gazed at and understood things and the mechanisms behind them; something nature usually denies men to see. In his great speech he teaches among other things about the changeability of everything, the benefits of vegetarianism, and Phoenix. | XV: 60-478 | |
Quirinus | The name of the deified form of Romulus. | XIV: 828-863 | |
Romulus | The founder of Rome. Son of Ilia and Mars. He took the name Quirinus upon his deification. | XIV: 799β846, XV: 560 | |
Saturnus | Roman god of agriculture and harvest. Brother and husband of Ops and father of Jupiter and his siblings. Saturnus led the rebellion against Uranus, but was later overthrown by Jupiter who precipitated him into Tartarus. Roman equivalent of the Greek Cronus. | I: 113, VI: 125, IX: 497, XIV: 320, XV: 858 | |
Scylla (sea bird) | Daughter of King Nisus of Megara. She fell in love with Minos, king of a besieging army and betrayed her city to him, but he spurned her. Was transformed into a sea bird, pursued by her father who was transformed into a sea eagle. | VIII: 17-104 | |
Scylla (sea monster) | Daughter of Crataeis. Metamorphosed, by Circe, into a terrifying sea monster on the Italian coast by the Strait of Messina with fierce dogs around her waist, snapping sailors passing by. | VII: 64, XIII: 730β966, XIV: 18-70 | |
Semele | Daughter of Cadmus and mother of Bacchus by Jupiter. | III: 260β520, IV: 422, V: 329 | |
Sibyl | Prophetess in Cumae. | XIV: 104β154, XV: 712 | |
Silenus | XI:85--99, and possibly IV.26 | ||
Sol | Roman god of the Sun, the son of Hyperion. Trusted his chariot to his son Phaethon by Clymene, which resulted in disaster. Witnessed the adultery of Venus and Mars, and informed Venus's husband Vulcanus. For this Venus made him fall in love with Leucothoe, while forgetting his previous lover Clytia. | I: 751, 771, II: 1β394, IV: 170β633, VII: 663, IX: 736, XI: 353, XIII: 853, XIV: 10β375, XV: 30 | |
Syrinx | Arcadian nymph. To hide from the amorous Pan she was metamorphosed into hollow water reeds. | I: 691-712 | |
Telamon | Son of Aecus, brother of Peleus, half-brother of Phocus, and father of Ajax. | VII: 476β669, VIII: 3β378, XI: 216, XII: 624, XIII: 22-345 | |
Tereus | Son of Mars, father of Itys, husband of Procne, and king of Thrace. He raped Philomela (Procne's sister), then cut out her tongue, but was later tricked by Philomela and Procne into eating Itys. Ultimately both sisters and Tereus were metamorphosed into birds. | VI: 424-681 | |
Themis | Goddess of law, justice, and prophecy and daughter of Uranus (the sky) and Gaia (the earth). She was the predecessor of Apollo as Oracle of Delphi | I: 321β381, IV: 643, IX: 403-418 | |
Theseus | Son of Aethra and Aegeus. During a visit at King Pittheus of Troizen Aegeus slept with the king's daughter, Aethra. He hid his sword under a rock and told Aethra that if she bore him a son she should tell this son when he was strong enough to remove the rock. He should then travel to Athens with the sign of his origin, the sword. | VII: 404β434, VIII: 262β726, IX: 1, XII: 227β355, XV: 492 | |
Thetis | Nymph, daughter of Nereus and mother of Achilles. | XI: 221β400, XII: 93-193, XIII: 162-301 | |
Thisbe | Pyramus' girlfriend whom he is forbidden to wed. When they decide to meet a lioness scares off Thisbe and mutilates the veil she left behind. Pyramus finds the veil and believing Thisbe is dead he kills himself. When Thisbe finds his corpse she kills herself as well. The mulberry fruits were given their stained colour to symbolize the forbidden love. | IV: 55-163 | |
Tiresias | Blind prophet in Thebes, famous for clairvoyance. | III: 322β516, VI: 157 | |
Tisiphone | One of the Erinyes. | IV: 474-495 | |
Triton | Sea god, son of Neptunus. | I: 331, II: 8, XIII: 919 | |
Ulysses | King of Ithaca. Son of LaΓ«rtes and Anticlea. | VIII: 315, XII: 625, XIII: 6β773, XIV: 71-671 | |
Urania | The muse of astronomy. | V: 260-294 | |
Venus | Goddess of love. Roman equivalent of the Greek Aphrodite. | I: 463, III: 132, IV: 171β531, V: 331, VII: 802, IX: 424β796, X: 224β717, XIII: 759, XIV: 27-788, XV: 762-843 | |
Vertumnus | The god of seasons, change and plant growth, as well as gardens and fruit trees. He seduces Pomona. | XIV: 641-765 | |
Vesta | Goddess of hearth, home and family. She had a sacred fire which was tended to by six virgin priestesses, Vestals, and which was connected to the safety of the city. The priestesses were severely punished if the fire went out and it was to be rekindled from the rays of the sun if that happened. Roman equivalent of the Greek Hestia. | XV: 730-865 | |
Virbius | Name of the deified form of Hippolytus. | XV: 544 | |
Vulcanus | God of forging and fire. Son of Jupiter and Juno and husband of Venus. Forged among other things the weapons of Achilles. Roman equivalent of the Greek Hephaistos. | II: 106β437, IX: 251, XII: 614 |
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