Arene (mythology)
Arene ( Greek Ἀρήνη ) is in Greek mythology the daughter of the Spartan king Oibalos (and the Gorgophone ) and, according to a version of the legend, the half-sister of Tyndareos , Hippokoon and Ikarios , who are the sons of Oibalos and the naiad Bateia .
She is the wife of Aphareus and mother of the Argonauts Lynkeus and Idas . After Pausanias , Aphareus named a city he founded in Messenia after her Arene , and the Arene spring in Triphylia is said to have been named after her.
literature
- Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll : Arene . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,1, Leipzig 1886, column 477 ( digitized version ).
- Georg Wentzel : Arene 4 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume II, 1, Stuttgart 1895, Col. 641.