Aithusa (mother of Linos)
Aithusa (Latin Aethusa ) is mentioned in one version of Greek mythology as the mother of Linos and Homer's ancestor .
The Byzantine Lexicon Suda quotes the historian Charax under the heading Homer with the following genealogical derivation:
- "Aethusa the Thracian was the mother of Linos, the father of Pieros, the father of Oiagros , the father of Orpheus , the father of Dres, the father of Euklees, the father of Idmonides, the father of Philoterpes, the father of Euphemos, the father of Epiphrades, the father of Melanopus, the father of Apelles, the father of Maion ; he came to Smyrna at the same time as the Amazons , married Eumetis , the daughter of Euepes , the son of Mnesigenes, and begat Homer. "
The line of ancestors is explained by the fact that higher poetry was generally derived from the Thracians and that a series of invented patronymics wanted to suggest enormous periods of time.
According to a version circulated by Pausanias and the library of Apollodorus , an Aithusa was the daughter of Poseidon and Alkyons , a lover of Apollo and mother of Eleuther . It is unclear whether this is supposed to be the same person.
literature
- Ulrich Hoefer : Aithusa 3 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 1, Stuttgart 1893, Col. 1110.
Remarks
- ↑ Charax frg. 20 to Suda sv Homer .
- ↑ Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker : The epic cycle or the Homeric poets , Volume 1, Bonn 1835, p. 147 .
- ↑ Libraries of Apollodorus 3,10,1; Pausanias 10:20,1.
- ↑ In any case, they are differentiated in RE , cf. Ulrich Hoefer : Aithusa 2 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 1, Stuttgart 1893, Col. 1110. Likewise in Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher: Aithusa 1, 2 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1.1, Leipzig 1886, column 201 ( digitized version ).