Nymph of Sicily, opposes Pluto during the kidnapping of Proserpine. (Cupid intervenes in several accounts: Book 1 - Daphne, Book 5 - Proserpine) Son of Venus, god of love in Roman mythology, also called Love, identified with the Greek god Eros. From his marriage with Helios Phaeton and Heliads are born.
One of the Oceanides, wife of the Japet titan, mother of Atlas, Prometheus, and Epimethea. (Book 2)ĭivinity of fertility in the Latins, then totally associated with Demeter. Nymph of Diana’s suite, loved by Jupiter and transformed into a bear by Juno then into a constellation by Apollo. Giant with a hundred eyes, killed by Mercury. Nymph of Arcadia, beloved of the Alpheus river, transformed into a fountain. Son of Jupiter and nymph Callisto, transformed into a constellation by Jupiter. (Apollo intervenes in several stories: Book 1 - Daphne, Book 6 - Niobé, Book 6 - Marsyas)ĭaughter of the dyer Idmon, Arachné defies the Minerve weaving which to punish the spider metamorphosis. God of Light, divination, music and poetry, protector of the Muses. Greek and Roman God, son of Jupiter and Latona, sometimes called Phoebus. Legendary princess of Ethiopia, delivered to a sea monster by Perseus. He commits suicide in front of the killing of his children by Apollo. (Book 5)Īmphion, son of Zeus and Antiope, husband of Niobe. God-river Alpheus lovers of the nymph Arethusis. Central to his vision was the notion – reassuring or disturbing by turns – that a person’s soul remained unchanged through the process of metamorphosis: when Actaeon is turned into a stag by an outraged Diana, whom he had glimpsed bathing, his human mind persists to experience the full horror of death at the jaws of his own hunting dogs who ‘ith greedy teeth and griping paws their lord in pieces drag’ (Book 3).Mythical hunter of Thebes who surprises Diane and the nymphs in the bath, attracts Diane’s anger, which transforms her into a deer. His main purpose was to show the constantly evolving state of the world, encapsulated in acts of dramatic transformation performed by the gods in moments of overwhelming lust, envy or rage. In fifteen books, Ovid provided a compendium of mythological stories that furnished western Europe with a more or less complete account of the doings of the immortal gods and their mortal co-stars.
‘History’ suggests something analytical and scholastic, but Metamorphoses was anything but. Publius Ovidius Nasso lived during the turbulent first century BCE, and his Metamorphoses (c.8 CE) offered a swirling history of the world from its creation to the assassination of Julius Caesar – which had taken place the year before Ovid’s birth.
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