Alalkomenia

Alalkomenia ( ancient Greek Ἀλαλκομενία ) is a daughter of Ogygos in Greek mythology .

She and her sisters Thelxinoia and Aulis were worshiped together as " Praxidikai " on the Boiotic mountain Tilphossion near the city of Haliartos in a sanctuary. There after Pausania's oaths were made on her, but not carelessly. She is said to have been the eponymous heroin of the Boiotic town of Alalkomenai . Another possible namesake is Alalkomeneus , the mythical educator of Athena .

Since her sisters have the nicknames of great goddesses, Thelxinoia the nickname of the goddess Hera Thelxinia and Aulis the nickname of the goddess Artemis Aulis , Karl Tümpel assumes that Alalkomenai is a derivative of the goddess Athene Alalkomeneis, who is worshiped in Alalkomenai .

literature

• Julius Adolf Bernhard : Alalkomenia . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,1, Leipzig 1886, column 222 ( digitized version ).
• Karl Tümpel : Alalkomenia . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 1, Stuttgart 1893, Col. 1277.

Remarks

1. ↑ Dionysius of Chalkidike , Ktiseis , fragment 3 in Photios sv Πραξιδίκη .
2. ^ Pausanias 9:33 , 3.
3. ↑ Pausanias 9:33 , 5.
4. ^ Karl Tümpel: Alalkomenia . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classical antiquity .