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.

proof

^ Pausanias 5: 7, 6.
^ Pausanias 5:14 , 7.

[1] Pausanias 5: 7, 6.

[2] Pausanias 5:14 , 7.