Arne (daughter of Aiolus)

Arne ( Greek  Ἄρνη ) is the illegitimate daughter of Aiolos and a daughter of the Centaur Cheiron in Greek mythology . According to the Greek historian Diodorus Siculus , she had two sons, the god Poseidon , who were only born after Aiolos gave Arne Metapontios , the legendary founder of Metapontios , with him. The sons Aiolus and Boiotus were adopted by this man, but later killed his wife in a quarrel. Thereupon Arne fled to Greece with her sons. It was considered eponymous heroin of both the Thessalian Arnes and the Boeotian Arnes .

swell

• Diodor Library 4.67
• Pausanias 9.40,3
• Stephanos of Byzantium sv Arne
• Etymologicum magnum sv Arne

literature

• Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll : Arne 1 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,1, Leipzig 1886, column 556 ( digitized version ).
• Georg Wentzel : Arne 6 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume II, 1, Stuttgart 1895, column 1202 f.