Pyreneus
According to Greek and Roman mythology, Pyreneus was king of Thrace . In Ovid's Metamorphoses , he lures the muses into his palace. He offers them protection from the storm there. When the muses are in the palace and the storm subsides, they want to leave again. But Pyreneus closes the gates and wants to do violence to the muses. But they manage to fly away. Pyreneus, in his madness, thinks he can fly like them and jumps from the top of the castle tower. But he falls into the depths and dies.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ovid, Metamorphoses 5.269 to 293.