Henioche (mother of Melanthos)

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

According to Hellanikos of Lesbos , Henioche was the daughter of Harmenios (or Armenios), son of Zeuxippos , and came from the family of the kings of Pherai in Thessaly , which dates back to Admetus . She was the wife of the Neleiden Andropompos , with whom she had Melanthos as a son. But Melanthos was the founder of the mythical royal dynasty of the Melanthids in Athens , who ended the long rule of the Kekropiden there.

Just as Armenios may have been the eponymous hero of the Armenians , Henioche may have been the namesake for the Heniochen, neighboring the Armenians on the Caucasian coast of the Black Sea .

swell

• Hellanikos in a Scholion to Plato , Symposium 208 D

literature

• Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll : Henioche 5 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,2, Leipzig 1890, Sp. 2035 ( digitized version ).
• Georg Weicker : Henioche 5. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume VIII, 1, Stuttgart 1912, Col. 258.

Remarks

1. ^ So Karl Tümpel : Armenios . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume II, 1, Stuttgart 1895, Col. 1187.