Ovid charaters page 1
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- Tethys
- The mother of Phaethon, she opened the gates of heaven and inknowingly allowed her grandson to drive the chariots of the sun god
- Callisto
- As Jove roamed the earth, trying to bring backthe life after the great fires, he took this Archadian beauty
- Ceres
- She struck a deal with Pluto: her daughter would live for half of the year with him and half with her
- Phaethon
- To prove himself to his friends, he demanded to drive the chariots of the sun god across the sky
- Narsissus
- His refusal of Echo's love caused her to waste away and die
- Juno
- She inflicted Echo with the habit of repeating the last words she heard from another's conversation
- Cyane
- She told Pluto he had gone too far, kidnapping and rapping the daughter of Ceres
- Arcus
- The minute he was born, Juno turned his mother into a bear
- Prometheis
- He molded men from clay, shaped them like the gods themselves, stood them verticall upright, and taught them to look to the heavens
- Erysichthon
- He sold his own shape-shifting daughter to make money to feed his insatible hunger
- Diana
- She was ashamed of Callisto's pregnancy and sent her away from the rest of the nymphs
- Phaethon
- He is the son of the god of the sun and a human mother
- Lycaon
- The father of Callisto, he was turned into a wolf by vengeful Jove
- Clymene
- She searched the whole earth to find the remains of her son, only to watch her grieving daughters turn into trees by their sorrows
- Ceres
- This goddess of harvest was the first to give men laws.
- Jove
- This god rescued Callisto and Arcas by turning them into constellations
- Diana
- She split the earth open and allowed the "water nymph" Arethusa make her final escapefrom the greedy river god.
- Clymene
- the mother of Phaethon, she tried to convince her son of his true heritage
- Pluto
- He was shot with one of Cupis's arrows and immediatly fell in love with Prosipina
- Venus
- She deiceded to avenge herself on her fellow goddesses, Cerese and Diana, by enchanting the god of the underworld
- Prometheis
- He gave men the treasure of the gods: fire
- Prosipina
- She was kidnapped and rapped by Pluto
- Phoebus
- He begged his son not to ask for the very thing that would kill him and bring destruction to the earth in the bargain.
- Saturn
- The father of Jove castrated by the king of the gods to the end of his line of heirs, a threat to Jove himself
- Lycaon
- He plotted to kill Jove when the god took the form of a man and came to the palace of this character
- Jove
- Decided to punish all men for their greed and arrogance by bringing on a great flood