Myrrha
deity earth Greek single tradition · 2
Myrrha was cursed by Aphrodite with insatiable lust for her own father, King Cinyras of Cyprus, after Myrrha's mother bragged that her daughter was more beautiful than the goddess. After becoming pregnant by her father through deception, she was discovered and fled, ultimately being transformed into a myrrh tree. Despite her transformation, she still gave birth to Adonis.
↻ synthesized from 2 sources
When
- First attested
- 800 BCE
- Attested period
- -800 – 2020
- Historical notes
- The myth is retold in Ovid's Metamorphoses, written between 43 BC and AD 17/18.
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Sources
wikipedia (2)
Source passages
“Myrrha, who was cursed by Aphrodite with insatiable lust for her own father, King Cinyras of Cyprus...Myrrha was changed into a myrrh tree but still gave birth to Adonis.”
#22813 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“Myrrha tricked her own father into having coitus with her, but he discovered her identity and chased her with a sword.”
#44964 · extracted by openai/gpt-oss-20b:free