B-C: Unabridged Names List • METAMETAMORPHOSES

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Bacchus [2] P, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 13, 15 ▪
Greek name Dionysus, god of grapes, wine and winemaking, orchards and fruit, vegetation, fertility, festivity, insanity, ritual madness, religious ecstasy, and (aptly) theatre

Bactrian [3] (rule breaker) 5 ▪
Coming from or pertaining to the region of Bactria in Persia

Battus [2] E, 2
Country fellow changed into flint by Mercury, for being a greedy double-dealer

Baucis [2] 8 ▪
Elderly wife of Philemon, hostess to Jove and Mercury, turned into a linden tree

Bellona [3] 5
Goddess of war, sister of Mars

Belus [2] 4
Founder of the Achaemenid line of Persian kings

Beroe [3] 3
Semele’s nursemaid, from Epidaurus

Bienor [3] 12
Centaur at Red Wedding 2

Bisaltes [3] 6
Father of Theophane

Bistonian [3] 13
Pertaining to the Thracian people ruled by Polymestor, who killed Priam’s son Polydorus

Boebe [2] 7
Lake in Thessaly

Boeotia [3] 2, 3, 7, 12 ▪
Country in central Greece founded by Cadmus with the help of a heifer, containing the cities of Thebes and Aulis

Bootes [3] 2, 8, 10 ▪
Constellation in the northern sky known as the Wagoner, Ploughman, or Bearherd, containing the bright star Arcturus, with nearby Ursa Major as the Wagon, Plough, or Great Bear

Boreas [3] 1, 5, 6, 7 ▪
The north wind, cold and blustery

Britain [2] 15
The island conquered (perhaps an exaggeration) by Julius Caesar in 55 and 54 BCE

Bromius [2] 4
Epithet of Bacchus as the noisy one

Bromus [2] 12
Centaur at Red Wedding 2, killed by Caeneus

Broteas (1) [3] 5
Twin brother of Ammon, boxer killed by Phineus at Red Wedding 1

Broteas (2) [3] 12
Lapith killed by Gryneus at Red Wedding 2

Bubasos [3] 9
Town in Caria

Bubastis [3] 9
Aka Bast or Bastet, cat goddess, attendant of Isis

Buris [2] 15
City near the Achaian coast, destroyed by an earthquake

Busiris [2] 9
King of Egypt who sacrificed strangers

Butes [2] 7
Brother of Clytus, Athenian princes who accompanied Cephalus on his embassy

Buthrotus [3] 13
City in Epirus built by Helenus as a memorial to Troy. Helenus was the prophet son of Priam.

Byblis [2] E, 9 ▪
Daughter of Miletus and Cyanee, fell in love with her twin brother Caunus

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Cacus [2] 9
Fire-breathing giant, son of Vulcan, killed by Hercules

Cadmus [2] 3, 4, 6 ▪
Son of Phoenician king Agenor, grandson of Neptune, father of Semele, grandfather of Bacchus, searched for his sister Europa, founded the city of Thebes, turned into a snake with his wife Harmonia

Caeneus [3] 8, 12
Male name of Caenis after changing gender

Caenis [2] 12
Female name of Caeneus before changing gender, from Atrax in Thessaly, daughter of Elatus

Caesar, Julius [2] E, 1, 15 ▪
Roman general and dictator, biological great-uncle and father by posthumous adoption of Octavian/Augustus, murdered on the Ides of March, 15/3/44 BCE, deified as a comet immediately after his death

Caicus [2] 2, 12, 15
River in Mysia, by the city of Teuthrania

Caieta [3] 14, 15
Nurse who raised Aeneas, also the location where she died and was buried

Calabria [4] (rule breaker) 15 ▪
Region of modern southern Italy forming the toe that kicks the football of Sicily

Calais [3] 6
One of the winged sons of Boreas and Orithyia, Argonaut, drove away the Harpies

Calaurean [3] 7
Pertaining to Calaurea, an island off the coast of Argolis

Calchas [2] 12
Greek fighter at Troy, son of Thestor, seer

Calliope [4] 5 ▪
Muse of epic poetry, victorious over the daughters of Pierus, mother of Orpheus

Callirhoe [4] 9
Daughter of Achelous, wanted her sons made older to avenge their father’s murder [NB: this is the opposite of what’s in the text, the text is wrong, see the Note in the book]

Callisto [3] 2
Nymph of Nonacris, raped by Jupiter, expelled from Diana’s troupe, turned into a bear then the constellation Ursa Major

Calydon [3] 6, 8, 9, 14
City in Aetolia where Achelous is a river god

Calymne [3] 8
Island in the Aegean near Ionia

Canace [3] 6
Daughter of Aeolus, not named directly in the poem (called a damsel of Aeolus’s line) but woven by Arachne since she was raped by Neptune in the form of a bull

Canens [2] 14
Daughter of Janus and Venilia, wife of Picus, noted for her singing voice

Canopus [3] 15
City in the Nile delta, seat of Cleopatra’s rule

Capaneus [4] 9
Argive leader, one of the Seven who fought against Thebes

Capetus [3] 14
Early Alban king

Caphereus [4] 14
Rocky promontory on Euboean coast where the Greek fleet wrecked on its return from Troy

Capitol [3] 1, 2, 15 ▪
Early Roman citadel and temple of Jupiter/Jove, built on the Capitoline hill

Capri [2] 15
Island off the coast near Naples, getaway spot for the rich and famous, notably the Emperor Tiberius

Capys [2] 14
Early Alban king

Caria [2] 4, 9
Country in Asia Minor containing Miletus and Halicarnassus, home of Byblis and Caunus

Carpathius [3] 11
Epithet of Proteus referring to Carpathos, an island in the Aegean

Carthaea [3] 7, 10
Town on the island of Ceos in the Aegean

Carthage [2] 14
City in north Africa ruled by Queen Dido (a native Phoenician), who killed herself after Aeneas left her

Cassiopeia [5] 4
Her daughter Andromeda was chained to a rock because Mummy bragged about her beauty

Castor [2] 8, 12
Twin brother of Pollux, sons of Tyndareus and Leda

Castrum [2] 15
City of the Rutulian people

Caucasus [3] 2, 8
Mountain and range in Asia, barren and cold

Caulon [2] 15
City in Bruttium on the south coast of Italy

Caunus [2] E, 9
Son of Miletus and Cyanee, his twin sister Byblis fell in love with him, he left town

Cayster [2] 2, 5
River in Lydia near Ephesus, known for its swans

Cea [2] 10
Island in the Cyclades with the city of Carthaea

Cebren [2] 11
River god of the Troad people (the region around Troy), father of Hesperie

Cecrops [2] 2
Mythical founder of Athens, part man part serpent, three daughters

Celadon (1) [3] 5
Gypsy (a native of Egypt), follower of Phineus killed at Red Wedding 1

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Celadon (2) [3] 12
Lapith at Red Wedding 2, killed by Amycus

Celmis [2] 4
One of the Dactyls, ironsmith, turned into steel for insulting Rhea the mother of Jove

Ceos [2] 7
Island in the Cyclades

Cenaeum [3] 9
Mountain at the northwestern limit of the island of Euboea

Centaurs [2] E, 2, 6, 9, 12 ,14, 15 ▪
Half-man, half-horse creatures in Thessaly, sons of Ixion and a cloud disguised in the form of Juno, bad party guests who can’t hold their liquor

Cephalus [3] E, 6, 7, 8 ▪
Athenian prince, husband of Procris, owner of Laelaps the hound

Cepheus [3] 4, 5
King of Ethiopia, husband of Cassiopeia, father of Andromeda

Cephisus [3] 1, 3, 8
River in Phocis and its god who raped Liriope, who then bore Narcissus

Cerambus [3] 8
Survivor of the great flood, saved by nymphs, later turned into a beetle

Cerastae [3] 10
Horned people of Cyprus turned into bulls by Venus

Cerberus [3] 4, 7, 9, 14 ▪
Three-headed guard dog of the underworld

Cercopes [3] 14
People from Lydia turned into apes (perhaps orangutans) by Jove, because of their lying and deceitful behaviour

Cercyon [3] 7
King of Eleusin, wrestled with all visitors, killed them when they lost, defeated by Theseus

Ceres [2] 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 ▪
Goddess of corn (grain), daughter of Saturn and Rhea, sister of Jove, mother of Proserpina/Persephone by Jove, Greek name Demeter

Ceryneian [4] 9
Describing the hind that Hercules captured on Mount Parthenius in Arcadia

Ceyx [1] E, 11 ▪
King of Trachin, son of Lucifer, brother of Daedalion, husband of Alcyone, died in a tempest at sea, he and his wife turned into kingfishers (pronunciation note: the possessive Ceyx’s has [2] syllables)

Chaonia [3] 5, 10, 13
Region in Epirus with a grove of oracular oaks at Dodona, also where King Munchius’s sons escaped a fire by being turned into birds by Jove

Chaos [2] E, 1, 2, 10, 14
The empty void existing before the creation of the universe

Charaxus [3] 12
Lapith at Red Wedding 2, burned and then killed by Rhoetus

Chariclo [3] 2*
Water nymph, wife of Chiron the centaur, mother of Ocyrhoe (*not named in text)

Charles’s [2] 1, 13, 15
Charles’s Wain totals 3 syllables, see Wain in the book’s glossary

Charon [2] 10
Ferryman who transports the freshly dead across the Styx

Charops [4] 13
Lycian killed by Ulysses

Charybdis [3] 7, 8, 13, 14
Dangerous whirlpool current in the strait of Messina between Italy and Sicily, opposite the rock of Scylla

Chersidamas [4] 13
Lycian killed by Ulysses

Chimaera [3] 6, 9
Fire-breathing monster, lion’s head, goat’s body, snake’s tail

Chione [3] 11
Daughter of Daedalion, niece of Ceyx, bore twin sons to both Apollo and Mercury (one to each)

Chios [2] 3
Island in the northeastern Aegean off the Ionian coast, where Acoetes found Bacchus

Chiron [2] 2, 6, 7 ▪
Centaur, father of Ocyrhoe, raised Apollo’s son Aesculapius, taught him medicine. Also mentored Achilles, Actaeon, and Jason. Chiron was not a cloud-bred son of Ixion, and unlike other Centaurs he had human front legs, though not all depictions show him that way.

Christ [1] P
Jesus of Nazareth, born ~5 BCE, a child at the time Ovid wrote Metamorphoses ~8 CE

Christian [2] E, P
Pertaining to Christianity

Chromis (1) [2] 5
Companion of Phineus at Red Wedding 1, killed venerable Emathion

Chromis (2) [2] 12
Centaur at Red Wedding 2, killed by Pirithous

Chromius [2] 13
Lycian killed by Ulysses

Chrysaor [3] 4*
Brother of Pegasus, a warrior giant born at the same time from the blood of decapitated Medusa (*not mentioned by name in the text, and note Chrysaor was not a horse)

Chryse [2] 13
Coastal city in the Troad region near Mount Ida, captured by Achilles

Chthonius [3] 12
Centaur at Red Wedding 2, killed by Nestor

Ciconia [3] 6, 11, 15
Land in southern Thrace, the country of Orpheus, having a river with water efficacious in treating loose bowels according to Pythagoras

Cilicia [3] 2
Region in Asia Minor containing Mount Taurus

Cilla [2] 13
Another city in the Troad region captured by Achilles

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Cimmeria [3] 11
Home of Somnus, a dark land of caves

Cimolos [3] 7
Island in the Cyclades with chalky soil

Cinyphia [3] 5
Region surrounding the river Cinyps in Africa

Cinyps [2] 7
River in Africa

Cinyras (1) [3] 6
Assyrian king, daughters were changed into stone temple… steps

Cinyras (2) [3] 10
Son of Paphos, father of Myrrha, father and grandfather of Adonis

Cipus [2] E, 15
Roman praetor, grew horns, kept himself outside the city walls

Circe [2] E, 4, 13, 14, 15 ▪
Daughter of Phoebus/Sol and Perse, skilled in enchantments and potions, bit of a nympho

Circean [3] 14
Pertaining to Circe

Ciris [2] 8
Bird into which Scylla daughter of Nisus was changed

Cithaeron [3] 2, 3
Mountain in Boeotia near Thebes

Clanis (1) [2] 5
Brother of Clytius, companion of Phineus, killed by Perseus at Red Wedding 1

Clanis (2) [2] 12
Centaur at Red Wedding 2, killed by Peleus

Claros [2] 1, 11
Town in Ionia

Cleonae [3] 6
Town in the Argolis region of the Peloponnese

Clitor [2] 15
City in Arcadia with a well that turned wine-drinkers into wine-haters

Clymene (1) [3] 1, 2, 4 ▪
Daughter of Oceanus and Tethys, wife of Merops, mother of Phaethon by Phoebus/Apollo

Clymene (2) [3] 8*
Daughter of Minyas, wife of Iasus, mother of Atalanta (1) (*not named in text)

Clymenus [3] 5
Follower of Phineus at Red Wedding 1

Clytie [3] 4
Daughter of Oceanus, loved Sol/Phoebus, pined away, turned into heliotrope

Clytius [2] 5
Brother of Clanis, companion of Phineus, killed by Perseus at Red Wedding 1

Clytus (1) [2] 5
Companion of Phineus at Red Wedding 1, killed by Perseus

Clytus (2) [2] 7
Brother of Butes, Athenian princes who accompanied Cephalus on his embassy

Cnidos [2] 10
City in Caria known for its fish

Cnossos [2] 8, 9
Capital city of Crete

Cocalus [3] 8
King of Sicily who gave refuge to Daedalus and defended him against Minos

Cocinthia [3] 15
Promontory with cliffs in Bruttium, somewhere near Crotona

Coeranos [3] 13
Lycian killed by Ulysses

Coeus [2] 6
Titan, father of Latona and Asterie

Colchian [2] 2
Pertaining to Colchis

Colchis [2] E, 6, 7, 13 ▪
Native country of Medea, southeast of the Black Sea, where Jason and the Argonauts sailed to retrieve/steal the Golden Fleece

Colophon [3] 6
City in Asia Minor, northwest of Ephesus

Combe [2] 7
Daughter of Ophius, mother of the Curetes, changed into a bird

Cometes [3] 12
Lapith at Red Wedding 2, friendly fire casualty when Charaxus hit him with a door jamb

Corinth [2] 2, 5, 6, 7, 15
City north of Mycenae

Corone [3] 2*
Daughter of Coroneus, aka Cornix, turned into a crow by Minerva to escape rape by Neptune (*not named in text)

Coroneus [4] 2
King of Phocis, father of Cornix

Coronis [3] 2
Daughter of King Phlegyas of Larissa, ruler of the Lapiths. She was unfaithful to Apollo, he killed her but saved her unborn son Aesculapius who was given to Chiron to raise.

Corycian [3] 1
Describing a cave on Parnassus and the nymphs who lived in it

Corythus (1) [3] 5
Warrior from Marmarica, friend to Perseus at Red Wedding 1

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Corythus (2) [3] 7
Son of Paris and Oenone

Corythus (3) [3] 12
Lapith at Red Wedding 2, killed by Rhoetus

Cos [1] 7
Island in the southeastern Aegean

Cragos [2] 9
Mountain in Lycia

Crantor [2] 12
Lapith killed at Red Wedding 2, squire to Achilles’s father Peleus

Crataeis [3] 13
Nymph, mother of Scylla (1)

Crathis [2] 15
River in Arcadia

Crenaeus [3] 12
Centaur at Red Wedding 2, ran away but killed when he looked back

Creon [2] 7
King of Corinth, father of Jason’s second wife Glauce

Crete [1] 3, 8, 9, 13, 15
Large island in southern Aegean, kingdom of Minos

Cretan [2] 7, 8, 9
Pertaining to Crete

Crimisa [3] 15
Town in Lucania, in the instep area above the toe of Italy

Crocale [3] 3
Nymph who dressed Diana’s hair

Crocus [2] 4
Youth who pined away for love of the nymph Smilax, turned into a (wait for it) crocus

Crommyon [3] 7
Village near Corinth where Theseus killed a monstrous sow ravaging the fields

Croton [2] 15
Host to Hercules, a city named after him later arose on the site of his home on the Italian south coast

Crotona [3] 15
City on the south coast of Italy (at the ball of the foot), named for Croton’s nearby tomb, Pythagoras lived there

Cumae [2] 14
Site of the cave of the Sibyl, the oracular priestess of Apollo

Cumaean [3] 14
Pertaining to someone or something from Cumae

Cupid [2] 1, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10 ▪
God of erotic love and desire, son of Venus and Mars, shooter of love (and anti-love) darts, aka Amor, Greek name Eros

Cures [2] 15
Chief city of the Sabines, native city of Numa

Curetes [3] 4
Guardians of the infant Jove, associated with rain and rainmaking rites

Cyane [3] 5
Sicilian nymph, turned into a fountain, showed Ceres that Proserpina had been abducted

Cyanee [3] 9
Daughter of Maeander, mother of Caunus and Byblis

Cybele [3] 10, 14
Phrygian great goddess personifying the earth in its original state, to whom pine trees were sacred

Cyclades [3] 2
Island chain in the southern Aegean forming a broken circle

Cyclops [2] 1, 3, 13, 14, 15 ▪
Collectively the Cyclopes, a race of one-eyed giants, sons of Neptune who ranged in Sicily and forged Jove’s lightning bolts. In particular the Cyclops Polyphemus, lovestruck wooer of Galatea.

Cycnean [3] 7
Describing Tempe as the home of Cycnus (2)

Cycnus (1) [2] 2
King of Liguria, son of Sthenelus, mourned Phaethon, turned into a swan

Cycnus (2) [2] 7
From Tempe, son of Apollo and Hyrie, Phylius refused to give him a tamed bull, he attempted suicide but was turned into a swan

Cycnus (3) [2] 12
Son of Neptune, invulnerable at Troy until Achilles strangled him, Neptune turned him into a swan

Cyllarus [3] 12
Young attractive centaur, his lover Hylonome killed herself after his death at Red Wedding 2

Cyllene [3] 1, 5, 7, 11
Mountain in the Peloponnese, the birthplace of Mercury

Cymelus [3] 12
Lapith at Red Wedding 2, took a dart in the cods

Cynthia [2] 15 ▪
Epithet of Diana/Phoebe/Artemis, see Diana

Cynthus [2] 2, 6
Mountain on the island of Delos

Cyparissus [4] 10
Youth loved by Apollo, turned into a cypress tree

Cyprus [2] 3, 10, 14
Island off the southern coast of Asia Minor, sacred to Venus

Cythera [4] 10
Island in the Aegean, sacred to Venus

Cythnus [2] 5
Island in the Cyclades

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