Chrysogeneia
Chrysogeneia ( Greek Χρυσογένεια ) or Chrysogone ( Χρυσογόνη ) is in Greek mythology a daughter of Almos , a son of Sisyphus .
According to Pausanias , Chrysogeneia is the sister of Chryse and of Poseidon the mother of Chryses , the king of the booth city of Orchomenos . In a scholion for the Argonautica of Apollonios of Rhodes she is called Chrysogone and is by Poseidon the mother of Minyas , who is said to have founded Orchomenos.
Karl Otfried Müller suspected that the myth alludes either to the wealth of gold in Orchomenos or to the Rhodian myth of the goddess Athena , worshiped in Orchomenos as Athena Chryse , who is said to have been born under a golden rain.
literature
- Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll : Chrysogeneia . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,1, Leipzig 1886, column 905 ( digitized version ).
- Karl Tümpel : Chrysogeneia. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume III, 2, Stuttgart 1899, Col. 2512.
- C. Weiss: Chrysogeneia . In: Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (LIMC). Volume III, Zurich / Munich 1986, pp. 290-291.