Echemeia

Echemeia ( ancient Greek Ἐχέμεια , Latin Ethemea , sometimes also Echemea ) is a person from Greek mythology .

She is the wife of Merops , the king of the Meroper, and mother of Kos . When Echemeia refused to continue serving Artemis, Artemis wanted to kill her with an arrow. Before that happens, Persephone takes her to Hades .

An unnamed daughter of Merops appears in Euripides ' play Helena . This wicked Artemis through her beauty and was transformed by her into a gold-horned hind as punishment .

literature

Jakob Escher-Bürkli : Echemeia. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume V, 2, Stuttgart 1905, Col. 1912 f. ( Digitized 1 , 2 ).

Remarks

^ Hyginus Mythographus De astronomia 2, 16; Etymologicum magnum 507, 55.
↑ Euripides, Helena 381 f.

[1] Hyginus Mythographus De astronomia 2, 16; Etymologicum magnum 507, 55.

[2] Euripides, Helena 381 f.