Iris

Also known as: Fleet Iris / fleet Iris · Family: divine · Role: goddess · First appears: BOOK III

🌐 Also appears in: Greek Mythology — A Family Orrery (as Iris) · The Aeneid (as Iris) · The Metamorphoses of Ovid (as Iris)

Life events

• Neptune yields to Jove’s command and leaves the battlefield for the sea.(BOOK XV)
  • With: Neptune Jove
  • “Neptune now left the field to go down under the sea, and sorely did the Achaeans miss him.”

BOOK III

• with Helen (interaction) “Meanwhile Iris went to Helen in the form of her sister-in-law, wife of the son of Antenor, for Helicaon, son of Antenor, had married Laodice, the fairest of Priam’s daughters.”

BOOK XI

• employer: Jove (Jove commands Iris to carry his message.) “He then told Iris of the golden wings to carry a message for him.”
• with Hector (Iris delivers Jove’s message to Hector.) “Iris hearkened and obeyed. Down she went to strong Ilius from the crests of Ida, and found Hector son of Priam standing by his chariot and horses.”

BOOK XVIII

• with Juno (interaction) “for Juno sent her”
• with Achilles (interaction) “Iris fleet as the wind, winged her way as messenger from Olympus to the son of Peleus and bidden him arm.”

BOOK XXIII

• with Boreas (interaction) “Achilles prays that Boreas and shrill Zephyrus will come to him”
• with Zephyrus (interaction) “Achilles prays that Boreas and shrill Zephyrus will come to him”

BOOK XXIV

• with Thetis (interaction) “Iris went up to her and said, “Rise Thetis; Jove, whose counsels fail not, bids you come to him.””

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Extracted from the original text of The Iliad. Made with Rho MD.