Chthonia (daughter of Erechtheus)
Chthonia ( Greek Χθονία ) is the daughter of Erechtheus and Praxithea in Greek mythology .
myth
According to the library of Apollodorus , her siblings are Kekrops , Pandoros , Metion , Prokris , Kreusa and Oreithyia ; other sources also cite Orneus , Thespios , Sikyon , Alkon , Eupalamos and Merope .
In the Suda , in addition to the daughters of Erechtheus mentioned in the library , Protogeneia and Pandora are also mentioned. In a scholion for the Argonautica of Apollonios of Rhodes , Creusa, Oreithyia and Prokris are daughters of Kekrops, Chthonia is the daughter of Oreithyia and Boreas and thus one of the Boreads with her siblings Chione , Cleopatra , Kalaïs and Zetes . She marries her paternal uncle Butes in the library .
When Athens is threatened by Eumolpos or as enemies from Boiotia threaten the city, Erechtheus is ordered in an oracle to sacrifice one of his daughters in order to be able to save the city. In the library the youngest daughter (without a name) is sacrificed to Hyginus Mythographus Chthonia, to Hyginus only after Eumolpos has fallen. Since the sisters had bound their lives to one another by an oath, they all committed suicide after the death of Chthonia. In the Suda, Chthonia's sisters Protogeneia and Pandora sacrifice themselves.
literature
- Richard Engelmann : Chthonia 2 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,1, Leipzig 1886, column 907 ( digitized version ).
- Richard Engelmann : Erechtheus . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1.1, Leipzig 1886, Col. 1296-1300 ( digitized version ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Libraries of Apollodorus 3, 15, 1.
- ↑ Pausanias 2:25 , 5; 9, 26, 6; 2, 6, 5.
- ↑ Scholion to Apollonios of Rhodes , Argonautika 1, 97
- ↑ Diodorus 4, 76, 1
- ↑ Plutarch , Theseus 19.
- ↑ Suda , p. Parthenoi .
- ↑ Scholion to Apollonios of Rhodes, Argonautika 1, 211.
- ↑ Libraries of Apollodorus 3, 15, 4, 4.
- ^ Hyginus Mythographus , Fabulae 46; 238.