person
Iphis
A youth of humble birth on Cyprus who hanged himself at the door of the highborn Anaxarete when she spurned his love. Not the Cretan Iphis of Book 9.
Reading notes
- Metamorphoses §14.463 Iphis
A Cypriot youth of low birth (not the Cretan Iphis of Book 9) whose hopeless love for the noble Anaxarete ends in his suicide.