Arsinoë (daughter of Nikokreon)
Arsinoë ( Greek Ἀρσινόη ) was in Greek mythology the daughter of King Nikokreon of Salamis on Cyprus from the noble family of Teukros .
The elegiac poet Hermesianax told the legend that the Phoenician Arkeophon , son of Minyridas, fell in love with Arsinoe, but was haughty rejected by her. His unrequited love eventually drove Arkeophon to starve himself to death. But Arsinoë only looked scornfully out of the window when his body was carried by. Because of this hard-heartedness, she was turned to stone by Aphrodite .
In a slightly different version, the same story is told by the Roman poet Ovid and the Greek philosopher Plutarch . Both authors give the haughty king's daughter different names: Ovid calls her Anaxarete , Plutarch Leukomantis .
literature
- Eduard Thraemer : Arsinoë 22). In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume II, 1, Stuttgart 1895, Col. 1280.
Remarks
- ↑ Hermesianax in Antoninus Liberalis 39.
- ↑ Ovid , Metamorphosen 14, 698ff; Plutarch , Amatorius 20, 12 ( Moralia 766cd).