Aulis (daughter of Ogygos)

Aulis ( ancient Greek Αὐλίς ) is a person from Greek mythology .

She is the daughter of Ogygos and the sister of Thelxinoia and Alalkomenia . Together they were worshiped as " Praxidikai " on the Boiotic mountain Tilphossion near the city of Haliartos in a sanctuary. There after Pausania's oaths were made on her, but not carelessly. Aulis is said to have been the eponymous heroin of the Boiotic town of Aulis .

With Eustathios of Thessalonike she is the daughter of Euonymos and thus the granddaughter of the river god Kephissus .

literature

• Hermann Steuding , Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll : Aulis 1 & 2 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,1, Leipzig 1886, column 711 ( digitized version ).
• Erich Bethe : Aulis 2. In: Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume II, 2, Stuttgart 1896, column 2410 ( digitized version ).

Remarks

1. ↑ Dionysius of Chalkidike , Ktiseis , fragment 3 in Photios sv Πραξιδίκη .
2. ^ Pausanias 9:33 , 3.
3. ^ Pausanias 9:19 , 6.
4. ↑ Eustathio's commentary on the Iliad 265, 8; Stephanos of Byzantium sv Αὐλίς .