Erato (daughter of Danaos)

Erato ( ancient Greek Ἐρατώ Eratṓ ) is in Greek mythology a daughter of Danaos , the king of Libya , and the naiad Polyxo . She is therefore one of the Danaids .

At the mass wedding of the 50 daughters of Danaos with the 50 sons of Aegyptus , at which lot decided on the pairing, she was assigned, according to the library of Apollodor Bromios , the son of the naiad Kaliadne , as husband, while with Hyginus Mythographus , who she Erate calls Eudaemon her husband. Like most of her sisters, she killed her husband on their wedding night.

literature

Hermann Steuding : Erate . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,1, Leipzig 1886, column 1295 ( digitized version ).
Jakob Escher-Bürkli : Erato 6. In: Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume VI, 1, Stuttgart 1907, Col. 355.

Remarks

↑ ^a ^b Libraries of Apollodor 2, 1, 5.
^ Hyginus Mythographus, Fabulae 170.

[apollodor-1] Libraries of Apollodor 2, 1, 5.

[2] Hyginus Mythographus, Fabulae 170.