Byssa
Byssa ( Greek Βύσσα ) is the daughter of Eumelos and sister of Agron and Meropis in Greek mythology .
Since she and her siblings had insulted the goddesses Athena and Artemis , she was changed as a punishment into the bird of Leukothea , which was also called Byssa . So it is at least in the Metamorphoses of Antoninus Liberalis . The identity of the bird remains unclear, however, as the Leukothea bird is certainly a sea bird, a shearwater or a seagull.
It has been argued that transforming into a seabird would not suit Athena (whose bird is the owl ). In addition, Byssa has not been handed down as a name for a sea bird. Due to similar names, this might mean the eagle owl ( bubo ).
swell
- Antoninus Liberalis , Metamorphoses 15
literature
- Ulrich Hoefer : Byssa . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume III, 1, Stuttgart 1897, Col. 1107.
- Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher: Byssa . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,1, Leipzig 1886, column 841 ( digitized version ).
- Francis Celoria (transl.): The Metamorphosis of Antoninus Liberalis. Routledge, London 1992, p. 69 and 149f
Individual evidence
- ↑ Celoria 1992, pp. 149f