Alkidamas (father of Ktesylla)
Alkidamas ( ancient Greek Ἀλκιδάμας Alkidámas ) is a figure in Greek mythology .
Alkidamas, who came from the island of Keos , was, according to Antoninus Liberalis and Ovid's Metamorphoses , the only sources, father of Ktesylla . Hermochares fell in love with Ktesylla and asked for her hand at Alkidamas. Alkidamas agreed and swore under the touch of a sacred laurel to underline the agreement. Forgetting his oath, he wanted to give his daughter to someone else. This angered the gods, on whose advice Ktesylla now fell in love with Hermochares. Together they fled to Athens . At the birth of her first child, however, Ktesylla died as a punishment for the perjury of Alkidamas. The story handed down in detail by Antoninus Liberalis goes back to the metamorphoses of Nicandros from Colophon .
literature
- Georg Knaack : Alkidamas 1 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 2, Stuttgart 1894, Col. 1533.
- Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll : Alkidamas 1 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,1, Leipzig 1886, column 235 ( digitized version ).
- Wilhelm Gundel : Hermochares 2. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume VIII, 1, Stuttgart 1912, Col. 858 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher: Hermochares . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,2, Leipzig 1890, Col. 2434 f. ( Digitized version ).
Remarks
- ^ Antoninus Liberalis 1; Ovid, Metamorphoses 7,369.