Aiaia

Aiaia or Aeaea (Greek Αἰαία or Αἶα, ancient Roman Aea ) is a mythical place in the geography of the Greeks , from which the name Αἰαίη as an epithet for Kirke was derived.

In the Odyssey , Aiaia is a wooded island where the sorceress Kirke lives with the animals she turns almost all visitors into. The place is there on the Ocean , so possibly outside the Mediterranean. Furthermore, it says in the Odyssey that the island is where Eos' house and dance hall are and the daily rise of Helios, from which it can be deduced that Homer locates Aiaia far in the east. In contrast, in the Argonautica of Apollonios of Rhodes , Kirkes Island lies in the west. Hesiod has probably already located Kirk Island in the west. The historian Armin Wolf suspects that Aiaia is the island of Ustica .

The island is said to have belonged to Chryses , the golden , father of Minyas and ancestor of Phrixus .

With the name Aia a city in the east on the Phasis river is called, where Aietes , the son of Helios and brother of the Kirke, ruled. Aietes was the ruler of the Colchis . Here was the wooded area in which the Golden Fleece was hung.

literature

Jakob Escher-Bürkli / Wilhelm Tomaschek : Aia 1 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 1, Stuttgart 1893, Col. 919 f.
Jakob Escher-Bürkli : Aiaia 1 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 1, Stuttgart 1893, Col. 920 f.
Robert von Ranke-Graves: Greek Mythology. Sources and Interpretation . Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg ¹⁴ 2001. ISBN 3-499-55404-6

Individual evidence

↑ Homer : Odyssey , 10, 136 and 10, 508
↑ Homer, Odyssey 12, 3f.
↑ Apollonios of Rhodos : Argonautika , 4, 661 in Reinhold Glei: Das Argonautenepos , II, pp. 114–115, 1996
↑ Paul Dräger : Studies on Hesiod's women's catalogs , Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 1997, p. 15 (with references to the controversy in note 68)
↑ Wolf, Armin: Homer's Journey. In the footsteps of Odysseus . Böhlau, 2009, ISBN 978-3-412-20407-5 , pp. 52 ff .
↑ Apollonios of Rhodos : Argonautika , II. 1267 in Reinhold Glei: Das Argonautenepos , I, pp. 144-145, 1996

[1] Homer : Odyssey , 10, 136 and 10, 508

[2] Homer, Odyssey 12, 3f.

[3] Apollonios of Rhodos : Argonautika , 4, 661 in Reinhold Glei: Das Argonautenepos , II, pp. 114–115, 1996

[4] Paul Dräger : Studies on Hesiod's women's catalogs , Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 1997, p. 15 (with references to the controversy in note 68)

[5] Wolf, Armin: Homer's Journey. In the footsteps of Odysseus . Böhlau, 2009, ISBN 978-3-412-20407-5 , pp. 52 ff .

[6] Apollonios of Rhodos : Argonautika , II. 1267 in Reinhold Glei: Das Argonautenepos , I, pp. 144-145, 1996