Nyctimene
a daughter of Epopeus, king of Lesbos, or, according to others, of Nycteus. Pursued and dishonored by her amorous father, she herself in the shade of forests, where she was metamorphosed by Athena into an owl. (Hyg. Fab. 204; Ov. Met. 2.590; Lutat. ad Stat. Theb. 3.507; Serv. ad Viry. Georg. 1.403.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.