Adiant
Adiante ( ancient Greek Ἀδιάντη Adiántē ) is a daughter of Danaos , king of Libya , and Herse in Greek mythology . She is therefore one of the Danaids .
At the mass wedding of the 50 daughters of Danaos with the 50 sons of Aegyptus , at which lot decided on the pairing, her Daïphron , the son of Hephaistine , was assigned as husband. Like most of her sisters, she killed her husband on their wedding night.
literature
- Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher: Adiante . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1.1, Leipzig 1886, column 67 ( digitized version ).
- Konrad Wernicke : Adiante . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 1, Stuttgart 1893, column 360.
Remarks
- ↑ Libraries of Apollodor 2,1,5.