Ascalabos
Ceres is mocked by ascalabos (painting by Adam Elsheimer , 1562).
Johann Wilhelm Bauer 1659
Virgil solis 1581
Ascalabus ( Greek Ἀσκάλαβος , Latin Ascalabus ) is a son of Misme in Greek mythology .
myth
The goddess Demeter (Roman god name Ceres ) came, exhausted and thirsty, to the house of Misme when she was looking for her kidnapped daughter , who received her kindly and gave her kykeon to drink. As she drank the kykeon in one go, Ascalabus mocked the goddess, whereupon she turned him into a star lizard .
As a result of a scholion to the Theriacs of Nicandros , Ascalabus was identified with a son of Metaneira named Abas . But it is probably simply a mistake: Demeter was the guest of Metaneira during their search and Abas is the name of a son of Poseidon and Arethusa , both figures of mythology involved in the story of the robbery of Persephone.
swell
- Antoninus Liberalis Metamorphoses 24
- Nikandros Theriaka 486 ff.
- Ovid Metamorphoses 5.446-461
literature
- Schirmer: Ascalabos . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,1, Leipzig 1886, column 610 ( digitized version ).
- Roscher: Abas 12) . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,1, Leipzig 1886, column 2 ( digitized version ).
Web links
Commons : Ascalabus - collection of images, videos and audio files
- Ascalabus in the Theoi Project
Individual evidence
- ↑ Natale Conti Mythologiae sive explicationis fabularum Padua 1616, vol. 5, p. 279 read online in the Google book search