Galateia (daughter of Eurytius)
Galateia ( Greek Γαλατεία "the milk white") was in Greek mythology the daughter of Eurytius and the wife of Lampros in the Cretan Phaistos .
Lampros ordered his pregnant wife to kill her child after birth if it was not a son. When she actually gives birth to a daughter, Galateia does not obey this cruel command, but raises her daughter as a boy under the name of Leucippus. As Leucippus grows up and the discovery becomes more and more likely, Galateia asks Leto to transform her child into a real boy. The goddess granted this request.
In memory of this, according to Antoninus Liberalis , the Ekdýsia are celebrated in honor of Leto Phytia . During this festival it was customary for young men to put on women's clothes instead of armor and for brides, possibly also grooms, to lie down by a statue of Leucippus.
literature
- Ruth Elisabeth Harder: Galateia 2. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 4, Metzler, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-476-01474-6 , Col. 741.
- Georg Weicker : Galateia). In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume VII, 1, Stuttgart 1910, Col. 518 f.
- Paul Weizsäcker : Galateia 2 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,2, Leipzig 1890, column 1588 f. ( Digitized version ).
Individual evidence
- ^ Antoninus Liberalis Metamorphoses 17.6, after Nikandros from Kolophon