M/M: The Story of Hyacinthus, Vatican Mythographers 1.117

Hyacinthus, Beloved by the Gods

Name:  Vatican Mythographers Date:   10th century CE Region:   Unknown Citation:   Vatican Mythographers 1.117

Hyacinthus was loved by both Boreas and Apollo, but he loved Apollo more. Angered by this slight, Boreas killed Hyacinthus with his own discus while he was practicing with it. Hyacinthus was then transformed into a flower bearing his own name.

Hyacinthus, Beloved by the Gods

Hyacinthum amatum tam a Borea quam ab Apolline dicunt. Qui cum magis Apollinis amore laetaretur, dum exerceretur disco, ab irato Borea eodem disco est interemptus et mutatus in florem nominis <sui>.

 

 Vatican Mythographers [10th century CE?] Little is known about the author or origin of the collection of myths known as the Vatican Mythographers, but the work’s first editor Angelo Mai found the collection on a manuscript dating back to the 10th century CE. This volume is a collection of three different mythographers who have assembled various Greco-Roman myths; although many of these myths are basic summaries in Latin, some of them are either analyzed as allegories or compared to Christian thought.