Arne (Siphnos)

Arne ( Greek  Ἄρνη ) is a resident of Siphnos in Greek mythology . In exchange for gold, she betrayed her home island to Crete's king Minos , who then went to the field against Siphnos. As a punishment, the gods turned Arne into a jackdaw , who was also very greedy for gold.

swell

• Ovid Metamorphoses 7,465-468

literature

• Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll : Arne 3 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,1, Leipzig 1886, column 556 ( digitized version ).