Automate (daughter of Danaos)
Automate ( Greek Αὐτομάτη ) is a Danaid in Greek mythology , one of the 50 daughters of Danaos , the king of Libya and later of Argos , and with Amymone , Agaue and Skaia one of the four daughters of Danaos with Europe .
Like all Danaids except Hypermestra , Automate murdered her husband Busiris on their wedding night .
After Pausanias she becomes the wife of Architeles , a son of Achaios . Archilete's brother Archandros marries Automate's sister Skaia.
literature
- Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll : Automate 1 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,1, Leipzig 1886, column 737 ( digitized version ).
- Konrad Wernicke : Automate 3. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume II, 2, Stuttgart 1896, Col. 2604 f.