# Clytie — Metamorphoses character guide

> Clytie in Metamorphoses by Ovid.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Fond Clytie, guilty Clytie

**First appearance:** 0033-transformation-of-clytie

## Who they are

Nymph who pines for the Sun and becomes a sunflower.

## Relationships

### [Apollo](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/metamorphoses_se/characters/apollo)

_romantic_

Apollo is the object of Clytie's unrequited love, leading her to waste away into a sunflower.

## In the story

### [Phaeton's Sisters Transformed Into Trees](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/metamorphoses_se/chapters/phaeton-s-sisters-transformed-into-trees)

Clymene, mother of Phaeton, frantically searches for his body and mourns at his tomb.

### [Book IV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/metamorphoses_se/chapters/book-iv)

A nymph scorned by Apollo; she reveals his affair with Leucothoe to her father.

### [Story of Leucothoe and the Sun](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/metamorphoses_se/chapters/story-of-leucothoe-and-the-sun)

A nymph who loves Apollo and, out of jealousy, reveals his affair with Leucothoe to her father.

### [Transformation of Clytie](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/metamorphoses_se/chapters/transformation-of-clytie)

Deserted by Apollo, she pines away and is transformed into a sunflower.

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