Botres

Botres ( Greek  Βότρης ) was, according to Antoninus Liberalis, a son of Eumelos of Thebes .

Eumelus was a servant of Apollo . When sacrificing a lamb, Botres ate the brain of the sacrificial animal before it was placed on the altar. Eumelus therefore burned his son in anger. To soothe Eumelos' pain at the loss of his son, Apollon turned Botres into a bird, a bee-eater .

swell

• Antoninus Liberalis , Metamorphoses 18
• Ovid , Metamorphoses 7, 390

literature

• August Schultz : Botres . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1.1, Leipzig 1886, Col. 815 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Georg Knaack : Botres . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume III, 1, Stuttgart 1897, Col. 792 f.