Aichmodikos

Aichmodikos ( ancient Greek Αἰχμόδικος ) is a person of Greek mythology .

He deflowered the king's daughter Echetos of Epirus , metope or Amphissa , and he is killed cruelly by Echetos. As a punishment, the daughter is blinded with an iron point. She is then locked up and, in order to regain her sight, has to grind iron barley grains into flour.

In a Scholion to Aphthonios , Aichmodemon is given as a variant of the name .

literature

Ulrich Hoefer : Aichmodikos . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 1, Stuttgart 1893, Col. 940.
August Schultz : Aichmodikos . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,1, Leipzig 1886, column 139 ( digitized version ).

Remarks

↑ Apollonios of Rhodes , Argonautika 4, 1092-1094
↑ Apollonios of Rhodes, Argonautika 4, 1094f. and Scholion to Homer's Odyssey 18, 85, = Eustathios of Thessalonike 1839.
↑ Scholion zu Aphton in Ernst Christian Walz : Rhetores greci , Volume 2. Cotta, Stuttgart and Tübingen, 1835, p. 645. ( Digitized in the Google book search)

[1] Apollonios of Rhodes , Argonautika 4, 1092-1094

[2] Apollonios of Rhodes, Argonautika 4, 1094f. and Scholion to Homer's Odyssey 18, 85, = Eustathios of Thessalonike 1839.

[3] Scholion zu Aphton in Ernst Christian Walz : Rhetores greci , Volume 2. Cotta, Stuttgart and Tübingen, 1835, p. 645. ( Digitized in the Google book search)