Aesacus Character Analysis in Metamorphoses

Although a descendent of Troy’s founders and ’s brother, Aesacus grows up in the country. When he chases a nymph he desires and she is fatally bitten by a poisonous snake, he jumps off a cliff, trying to kill himself. He is transformed into a diving bird that continuously tries to drown itself.

Aesacus Quotes in Metamorphoses

The Metamorphoses quotes below are all either spoken by Aesacus or refer to Aesacus . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:

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Then Aesacus furiously lowered
his head and plunged to the depths. He repeatedly tried to discover
a pathway to death and never stopped trying. His love made him thin,
and all of him lengthened out: his legs on their knotted joints,
his neck with the head so far from the body. He loves the sea,
and because he is constantly diving down it, we call him the diver.

Related Characters: Aesacus

Page Number and Citation: 791

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