Henioche (wife of Creon)

Henioche ( Greek  Ἡνιόχη ) is a figure in Greek mythology .

Henioche was in the older tradition the wife of the Theban king Creon , who is called Antigone Eurydice in the Sophoclean tragedy . She and her husband welcomed the Amphitryon, who had fled Tiryns , hospitably and with all due respect. He and his wife Alkmene had to flee after he accidentally killed his father-in-law Elektryon with a club when he threw it at a runaway cow.

It is possible that in the figure of Henioche there is a reflex of an old, Boeotian local deity who merged with Hera and can still be found in the Epiklesis Henioche for Hera in the Boeotian city of Lebadeia .

swell

• Hesiod , The Shield of Heracles 83
• Scholion to Homer , Iliad 14.323

literature

• Hans von Geisau : Henioche 2. In: The Little Pauly (KlP). Volume 2, Stuttgart 1967, column 1021.
• Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll : Henioche 2 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,2, Leipzig 1890, Sp. 2035 ( digitized version ).
• Georg Weicker : Henioche 2. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classical antiquity (RE). Volume VIII, 1, Stuttgart 1912, Col. 258.