Wherefrom comes the Greek story I’ve seen repeated in many variations that Anemone was a nymph at Flora’s court, who fell in love in Zephyr and was banished to be turned into a flower. It sounds typically Ovid’ian by I can’t find it in there, or in any other Greek source.
If I remember Edith Hamilton’s Mythology correctly, Rune, Zephyrus & Apollo were both in love with the same youth. I think the youth preferred Apollo. During a discus competition, Zephryus blew on a discus – I cannot remember whether it was to help a competitor or to commit murder – and it struck the youth, causing a wound beyond Apollo’s skill to heal. Anemones sprang up from the blood.
Ovid wrote in Latin, not Greek.
That was hyacint. I suspect that the story with the anemone is actually a later misunderstanding of this one, but not found in the ancient mythology. It’s just that I have found it mentioned so many places, incl. by people like Erasmus Darwin.
Yes, but I think only one of his stories are of Roman mythology. The rest are Greek mythology.