Anaxarete
Iphis and Anaxarete illustrated by Virgil Solis
Anaxarete ( ancient Greek Ἀναξαρέτη ) is a Cypriot girl from the family of Teukros in Greek mythology .
She rebuked the shepherd Iphis' love haughtily and cruelly. He pleaded in vain and finally hanged himself in front of her door. Anaxarete remained unmoved, so that Aphrodite turned her into a stone.
It is a Hellenistic legend to explain the unusual posture of the cult image of the goddess in the temple of Salamis. Antoninus Liberalis 39 tells the same story, except that he calls the girl Arsinoe , the spurned lover Arkeophon ; in Plutarch , Amatorius 20, 12 the girl is called Leukomantis , the boy is called Euxynthetos .
literature
- Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher : Anaxarete . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,1, Leipzig 1886, Col. 334 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Georg Knaack : Anaxarete . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 2, Stuttgart 1894, Col. 2081.