Anios
Anios ( Greek Ἄνιος ) is a figure from Greek mythology .
origin
Anios is a son of Apollon and Rhoio (means pomegranate girl). When the pregnancy of his mother Rhoio (daughter of Staphylos and Chrysothemis, a granddaughter of Dionysus) was discovered, her father Staphylos (meaning grape) locked her in a box and then set it out on the sea. She eventually landed on the island of Delos, sacred to Apollo, and gave birth to a son. She laid him down on Apollon's altar, with the request that he care for the child if he recognized Anios as his son. Apollo consented and gave the child a prophetic gift. Other traditions say that Rhoio was first washed ashore in the box on the coast of Evia .
Sometimes Krëusa is also mentioned as Anios' mother.
Life
Anios became the priest-king of the island of Delos. He married Dorippe, who gave birth to a son named Andros, who later became king of the Aegean island of Andros . Apollon had taught him the art of interpreting the flight of birds.
Anios also had three daughters from his wife Dorippe, Oino, Spermo and Elais, whom he consecrated to Dionysus , because he wished that his family would be under the protection of another god. In return, Dionysus endowed the daughters with special gifts: everything that Oino touched after she had asked the god for help would be turned into wine, what Spermo touched into grain, and what Elais touched into oil. These were the foods they were named after.
Trojan war
When the Greeks moved to Troy , their fleet first gathered in Aulis and they took supplies of grain, wine, oil and other foodstuffs on their ships, which Anios made available to them. Taking care of the Greek fleet was easy for him, as his three daughters could help him. However, Agamemnon was not yet satisfied with that. He sent Menelaus and Odysseus to Delos to ask Anios to give him his daughters on the expedition. Anios refused this request because he knew from his prophetic gift that it was the will of the gods that Troy would only be taken in the tenth year of the war. Anios hospitably suggested that his daughters would ensure food supplies from Delos until the age of ten, and that if necessary they would come to Troy later. But since Agamemnon had previously ordered the three daughters to be brought along, whether Anios would agree or not, Odysseus tied them up and forced them onto his ship. When the three were able to escape later, two of them to Euboia, the last to Andros, Agamemnon sent ships in pursuit and threatened everyone with war if they were not extradited. All three surrendered and at the same time called Dionysus for help. When Agamemnon wanted to have her tied up, the invoked god turned the daughters into doves.
After the fall of Troy, Anios entertained the escaped hero Aeneas and his father Anchises on their journeys that were to lead to Italy .
Eponyms
In 1998 the Jupiter Trojan (8060) Anius was named after him.
literature
- Michael Grant, John Hazel: Lexicon of ancient myths and figures . DTV, Munich, 18th edition 2004
- Herbert J. Rose: Greek Mythology, A Handbook . CH Beck, Munich, 8th edition 1992
- Robert von Ranke-Graves: Greek Mythology, Sources and Interpretation . Rowohlt Taschenbuch, Hamburg, 11th edition 1997
Individual evidence
- ↑ Otto Höfer : Kreusa 4) . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 2.1, Leipzig 1894, column 1428 ( digitized version ).
- ↑ Ovid , Metamorphoses 13,632-704
- ↑ Minor Planet Circ. 31612