transformations Flashcards
daphne
daughter of river god peneus, turned into a laurel tree after praying to her father to destroy her beauty so that apollo would stop coming after her, happened after cupid shot a (lead?) arrow that repelled love into daphne and a gold one into apollo because of apollo saying that killing a dragon was better than cupid’s trivial bow and arrows
hyacinthus
son of amyclas, turned into a hycaninth flower after apollo accidentally kills him with a discus what was send by the jealous wind zyphyrus to hit him (he liked hyacinthus too), also lover of thamyris
narcissus
son of cephissus and leiriope, turned into narcissus flower after he falls in love with his own reflection
niobe
daughter of tantalus, wife of amphion, turned into a weeping rock after she boasted she was a better mom than leto/letona (roman name) and leto sent apollo and artemis to kill her kids and then she couldn’t stop crying
myrrha
daughter of cinyras and cenchreis, falls in love with her father and turns into a myrrh treee
lycaon
king of arcadia, son of pelasgus and mother tbd, had fifty sons and one daughter (calypso); was visited by zeus and planned to kill him because he didn’t believe that he was a god; fed zeus human meat and was turned into a wolf; caused zeus to destroy humanity with a flood; all his sons were killed except nyctimus with a lightning bolt
hecuba transformation
turns into a hellhound/female dog because she blinds polymnestor for killing her son polydorus for his gold and also killed polymnestor’s infant sons
procne
daughter of pandion, married tereus who fell in love with her sister philomela, bc of this she cut up their son itys and served him to tereus, tereus went after the sisters with a sword and then procne was turned a nightingale to escape
philomela
daughter of pandion, seduced by her sister’s husband tereus, wove the story of tereus seducing her and cutting off her tongue to prevent her from saying anything into a robe to send to procne and helped her cut up her son to serve to him, was turned into a swallow
tereus
thracian/daulian king, came to athens to help king pandion in his border dispute with lahdacus (king of thebes), was rewarded with pandion’s daughter procne as a wife and had a son with her (itys), tereus soon fell in love with procne’s sister, philomela and sent procne away into the country to persuade philomela that her sister was dead and then succeeded in seducing her, he cut off her tongue to stop her from spilling and was served his son by procne in revenge, was turned into a hoopoe
nyctimene
daughter of epopeus (king of lesbos), was raped/seduced/attacked by her father and hid in the woods bc of shame, athena took pity on her and turned her into an owl
galanthis
theban attendant of alcmene at the birth of heracles, tricked the goddess eileithyia into abandoning the charms (crossing her legs and fingers) that were preventing the birth of heracles by saying that the baby was born what it wasn’t, was turned into a weasel by eileithyia
io
daughter of river god inachus and melia (?)
wtf did the oracles say will happen to inachus bc of io’s dreams
oracles of dedona and delphi said that he and his ppl will get destroyed by a thunderbolt if he doesnt exile io!!!!!!!
where zeus told io to meet when whispering in her dreams
the fields of the river lerna
how argus watched over io
tied her to an olive tree in the groves of mycenae
how hermes bested argus
disguised himself as a goatherd and lulled him to sleep with stories and then cut his head off
how/why io began her wanderings around africa
hera sent an annoying ass gadfly to sting her while she’s in cow form
where tf did io go on her wanderings
said to have passed by dedona (where the talking oaks recognized her as zeus’s mate to be, crossed the straits of maeotis which were renamed bosporus (cow’s ford) after her, came upon the place where prometheus was chained, and then eventually came, exhausted, to memphis/canobus and laid down and then zeus came to her by the nile and they had a baby
io and her son
io, when restored to human form, had a kid named epaphus, hera sent the curetes to kidnap him and zeus killed them bc of it, io learns that epaphus had been taken to syria and she went to find him cared for by the queen of byblus and then she returned with him to egypt where she married king telegonus and instituted the worship of demeter
callisto
nymph or daughter of lycaon, nycteus or ceteus, arcadian favored by artemis, zeus saw her and turned himself into either apollo or artemis to gain her trust and then had wild nasty sex with her or smth and was turned to a bear
why was callisto turned into a bear???!??!?!
either bc zeus wanted to cover his embarassment bc hera was spying on him, or bc hera was jealous and then turned her into a bear, or bc artemis was angry bc callisto broke her vow of chastity that she probably had
callisto died!!!! how???!?!
either bc artemis shot her after hera pointed her out to artemis and then zeus sent hermis to rescue the baby and then gave it to his mother to bring up, or bc arcas when he was grown up saw her in the woods and shot her
callisto’s ultimate fate
zeus put her and arcas in the sky as ursa major and minor respectively
perdix
daedalus’s nephew and son of daedalus’s sister named perdix lmao, crazy cool inventor, created the saw from/inspired by the spine of fish or the jawbone of a snake, also created the compass and potter’s wheel, daedalus got jealous of him and threw him off the acropolis, athena turned him into a partridge
ascalabus
laughed at demeter for greedily drinking water when she was tired from looking for her daughter and was turned into a lizard
ascalaphus
song of acheron and orphne/gorgyria, told hades when persephone ate pomegranate seeds in the underworld, persephone turned him into an owl by flinging water from the river phlegethon in his face
asteria
daughter of phoebe and coeus, married perses and bore the goddess hecate, when pursued by zeus to fuck she leapt into the sea/was flung into it and became a quail, where she fell became the island of ortygia and later offered solace to her sister leto when she was giving birth and was renamed delos or was near delos
pierides
daughters of pierus (eponym of pieria near mount olympus) who he called children of the muses, became experts at singing and challenged the muses to a competition, were turned into magpies when they lost
heliades
daughters of helios, turn into poplars and tears turn into amber as they mourn phaethon near the eridanus river
cycnus
musician king of the ligurians, was turned into a swan by apollo when he was mourning phaethon
daedalion
threw himself off mt parnassus in grief and was turned into a hawk by apollo when his daughter chione was killed by artemis w/ an arrow bc she boasted that she was prettier when apollo and hermes both wanted her and she had two kids in one day (one from each baby daddy)
syrinx
chose to live a life of a virgin huntress, pan saw and pursued her one day, she ran to the river ladon and prayed to the water nymphs to transform her when she couldn’t cross and was turned into reeds, pan took these reeds and created the pan pipe (syrinx)
cyparissus
youth loved by apollo, accidentally killed his beloved stag and asked apollo to let him mourn forever and was turned into a cypress tree
nisus
king of megara, son of pandion, his daughter, scylla, cut off his purple lock of hair either bc she was in love with king minos (who was attacking megara) or bc she was bribed by him, was turned into an osprey
scylla
daugher of king nisus, turned into a ciris when she drowned after cutting her father’s purple lock of hair for king minos and he rejected her
picus
roman woodland demigod, son of saturn and venilia, was married to nymph canens but circe fell in love w him and when he ignored her she turned him into a woodpecker, canens wasted away from grief
caeneus
trans king!!!! was born a girl, caenis, child of king of thessaly elatus, didn’t want to take a husband even tho she was beautiful, poseidon saw her and violated her, then offered to grant whatever wish she had and she wished to be a man so nothing like that would happen again, poseidon also made him invulnerable by weapons, became a leader of the lapiths and killed several centaurs during the fight at perithous’s wedding, was beat over the head with fir trees and died and then was changed into a bird
elais, spermo, oino
daugters of anius, were given the gift of producing oil corn and wine from the ground by dionysus, agamemnon heard of this and kidnapped them so they would feed the greeks at troy, they escaped then their brother ratted them out, the three pray to dionysus to escape agamemnon again and he turns them into white doves
thebe
wife of zethus, namesake of thebes, accidentally killed her son itylus and was turned into a nightingale
aesacus
son of priam and his first wife arisbe, learned the art of prophecy from merops, married/loved either asterope or hesperia, both daughters of river god cebren, was turned into a bird when asterope died or was turned into a diver bird by tethys when hesperia died from a snake bite bc he chased her thru the woods and leapt into the sea in remorse
meleagrides
sisters of meleager, was turned into guinea fowl by artemis bc she was mad at oeneus (his father)
daughters of minyas
were turned into bats by dionysus when they refused to participate in his festival thing and continued to weave and stuff
antigone
daughter of laomedon, sister of priam, was turned into a stork by hera bc she said that her hair was more beautiful
baucis and philemon
hosted zeus and hermes when they were disguised as mortals, gods revealed their indentity and zeus offered to grant them any wish they had, philemon wished that they would become priests of the temple the gods had turned their house into and that neither one of them should outlive the other, baucis was turned into a linden and philemon into an oak
philyra
daughter of oceanus and tethys, while cronus was looking for zeus he came upon philyra and laid with her in the form of a stallion on the island in the black sea that would have her name, philyra fled her home in shame and had her child, chiron, in the mountains of pelasgia, she asked zeus to become a linden tree and was
phyllis
wife of demophon/acamas, turned into a almond tree after hanging herself after her husband didn’t return at the time they agreed upon
tyrrhenian pirates
pirates that kidnapped dionysus in hopes of keeping him for ransom were turned into dolphins when they leapt overboard from their ship into the sea, the only one of the crew who tried to stop them was acoetes and he was spared
