Epimedes (Dactyle)
Epimedes ( Greek Ἐπιμήδης ) is one of the Idaean dactyls in Greek mythology .
According to Pausanias , the Titanid Rhea entrusts her newborn son Zeus to the five dactyls from the Cretan Ida Mountains so that they can protect him from his father Kronos . Pausanias identifies the dactyls with the curetes . Like each of the Idean dactyls, it had its own altar in the Zeus sanctuary at Olympia .
literature
- Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll : Epimedes 1 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,1, Leipzig 1886, column 1283 ( digitized version ).
- Otto Kern : Epimedes 1. In: Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume VI, 1, Stuttgart 1907, column 162.