Ankaios (son of Zeus)

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Ankaios ( Greek  Ἀγκαῖος ) is in Greek mythology king of the Lelegs on Samos and a son of Zeus or Poseidon and Astypalaia .

Once a seer predicted that he would not drink wine from the vines he was planting . When he later, mocking the seer, held the full cup in his hand, the latter made the proverbial saying: "There is much between the cup and the edge of the lips." Suddenly the news arrived that a boar was devastating the land. Thereupon Ankaios set down the cup and hurried out, whereupon he was killed by the boar.

literature

• Georg Oertel : Ankaios 2) . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1.1, Leipzig 1886, Col. 354 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Ballad by Johann Friedrich Kind : King Ankäos , from: Poems. Leipzig: Hartknoch, 1808. p. 7. Google Books: King Ankäos with the well-known quote: "Between the lip and the edge of the goblet / The hand of the dark powers floats!"
• Johannes Toepffer : Ankaios 2 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 2, Stuttgart 1894, Col. 2218 f.