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Kydippe with Akontios' apple by Paulus Bor (around 1601–1669)

Akontios ( Greek Ἀκόντιος) is a young man from the island of Keos in Greek mythology . In Delos he falls in love with the beautiful Kydippe from Athens at a festival in honor of the goddess Artemis . He uses a ruse to win her: in the temple of Artemis he throws an apple to Kydippe, in whose skin he has scratched the words “By Artemis, I will take Akontios as husband”. The surprised Kydippe reads the sentence aloud, making it the oath to which she is bound in the temple of Artemis. Her father tries in vain to marry her off to other men. Every time she makes Artemis seriously ill. From the oracle of Delphi the father finally gets the advice to give her to Akontios to wife, whereby the noble origin of Akontios is emphasized: this is namely the descendant of the keischen priests of Zeus Aristaios Ikmios , who annually the star Maira (Sirius) with sacrifice soothe, so that the summer heat brought by the star will be alleviated by the Etesien .

The legend of Callimachos of Cyrene is described in Aitia (III 1, 26ff.) And by Ovid in Heroides (20 and 21).

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