Chariklo (wife of yours)
Chariklo ( Greek Χαρικλώ ) is a nymph of Greek mythology . She is the wife of the Shepherd of yours and of him the mother of Teiresias .
When Teiresias sees Athena at the bath, she punishes him with blindness . Chariklo asks her friend Athene to undo this, but it was impossible. Since Chariklo is important to her, Athene Teiresias cleans the ears instead so that he can understand the birds and gives him a staff to lean on.
literature
- Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll : Chariklo 3 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,1, Leipzig 1886, column 872 ( digitized ).
- Jakob Escher-Bürkli : Chariklo 2 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume III, 2, Stuttgart 1899, Col. 2141.
Web links
- Chariklo in the Theoi Project (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Pherecydes in the library of Apollodorus 3, 6, 7.
- ↑ Callimachos lavacrum Palladis 59 ff.