person
Phineus
King who blinded his own sons on a false charge and was punished in turn.
Reading notes
- The Art of Love §1.10 Phineus
King who blinded his innocent sons on a false charge and drew punishment on his own head.
- Letters from the Black Sea §1.4 the son of Agenor
Phineus, son of Agenor, the seer who told the Argonauts which way to sail; Ovid had no one to chart his course.
- The Festivals §6.1 Phineus
The blind Thracian king tormented by the Harpies, the rapacious birds from whom the screech-owls are said to descend.
- Ibis §8 dove
Phineus, the blind seer who told the Argonauts to send a dove ahead through the Clashing Rocks before the Pallas-built Argo.
- Metamorphoses §5.97 Phineus
Brother of Cepheus and uncle of Andromeda, to whom she had first been promised; cheated of the bride, he breaks in to claim her and starts the wedding massacre.
- The Cure for Love §11 Phineus
The blind Thracian seer whose food the Harpies fouled; here invoked for the stench of a woman's cosmetics.