Danaë (daughter of Neoptolemus)

Danaë ( Greek Δανάη ) is a daughter of Neoptolemus and Leonassa in Greek mythology . On her father's side she was consequently a granddaughter of Achilles .

It is only used around 200 BC. The mythographer who wrote in BC called Lysimachos , who gives Leonassa as the mother's name. Usually, however, the wife of Neoptolemus is called Lanassa. According to Lysimachus, Danaë was the sister or half-sister of Argos , Pergamos , Dorieus , Pandaros , Eurymachos , Eraos and Troas .

literature

Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll : Danae 2 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1.1, Leipzig 1886, column 949 ( digitized version ).
Jakob Escher-Bürkli : Danae 3. In: Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume IV, 2, Stuttgart 1901, Sp. 2087.

Remarks

↑ Lysimachus in the Scholien zu Euripides , Andromache 24 and 32; see Felix Jacoby , The Fragments of the Greek Historians (FGrH), No. 382 F 10.

[1] Lysimachus in the Scholien zu Euripides , Andromache 24 and 32; see Felix Jacoby , The Fragments of the Greek Historians (FGrH), No. 382 F 10.