Diomos (son of Kolyttus)
Diomos ( Greek Δίομος ) is a figure in Greek mythology .
When Heracles once stopped at Kolyttus' house and was received hospitably, he fell in love with his son Diomos and made him his Eromenus . After the hero's death (and his apotheosis ) Diomos sacrificed him on his father's hearth when suddenly a white dog came in and carried away the sacrificial meat. An oracle knew the solution to the embarrassing incident: where the dog had dropped its prey, an altar had to be erected to the demigod. Since then, games have been held for Heracles Kynósarges at this place, as part of a festival called Diomiás . Later the Kynosarges gymnasium was built here (Greek κύων kýōn , gen. Κυνός kynós = dog).
According to another legend, the matter revolved around a sacrifice of Zeus . At the annual festival, the priest had been laying grain on the altar as always when a bull came in and ate up the gift. The enraged Diomos took those present to help and together they killed the wicked animal. A custom was made out of it, and since then an ox (Greek βοῦς būs ) has been sacrificed among the Buphonia .
An ancient district of Athens was named after Diomos Diomeia - just as the neighboring Demos Kolyttos already bore his father's name.
literature
- Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll : Diomos . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,1, Leipzig 1886, column 1027 ( digitized version ).
- Georg Wissowa : Diomos 1 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume V, 1, Stuttgart 1903, Col. 831 f.
- Hans von Geisau : Diomos. In: The Little Pauly (KlP). Volume 2, Stuttgart 1967, column 57 f.
Individual evidence
- ^ Wilhelm Gemoll : Greek-German school and hand dictionary . G. Freytag / Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky, Munich / Vienna 1965, p. 460.
- ↑ Porphyrios De abstinentia 2.10.