Pandareos
Pandareos ( ancient Greek Πανδάρεως Pandareos , Latin Pandareus ) is in Greek mythology the son of Merops , king of Miletus, either the ionic or the Cretan city of the name; he is called one of the forefathers of mankind.
Myths
According to legend, Pandareus stole the golden dog that guarded the sanctuary of Zeus in Crete and carried it to Mount Sipylos , where he hid the animal at Tantalus . When the thief later asked for it back, Tantalos swore that he had never received the dog; it was also said that it was Hermes who - sent by the father of gods - asked about the animal. Zeus turned Pandareus into stone as a punishment, but he struck down the perjured Tantalus with a lightning bolt and threw Sipylos on him. In another version, Pandareus was able to flee to Sicily via Athens before he died.
He had several daughters with his wife Harmothoë. The oldest was Aëdon , the two youngest were probably called Kameiro and Klytia in the older tradition (in the traditions of the Scholien Kleothera and Merope ). The Odyssey tells that the daughters of Pandareus - meaning the younger ones, the older Aëdon seems to be a later ingredient - after the death of their parents by Aphrodite , Hera , Artemis and Athena raised and given rich gifts, but then abducted by the harpies and handed over to the Erinyes as servants.
Antoninus Liberalis reports that Demeter gave Pandareus the gift of being able to eat as much as he wanted without feeling sick.
reception
The mountain Mount Pandareus in Canada is named after Pandareos.
swell
- Homer Odyssey , XX. Singing, verse 66 ff.
- Pausania's description of Greece 10.30.2
- Antoninus Liberalis Metamorphoses 36
- Eustathios of Thessalonike Via Homer
- Scholion zu Pindar Olympic Ode 1.90
literature
- Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher: Pandareos . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 3.1, Leipzig 1902, Col. 1498-1504 ( digitized version ).
- Tantalus . In: Encyclopædia Britannica . 11th edition. tape 26 : Submarine Mines - Tom-Tom . London 1911, p. 401 (English, full text [ Wikisource ]).
Web links
- Aphrodite . In: Encyclopedia of Greek Gods, Spirits, and Monsters
- Odyssey, XX. Singing project Gutenberg
- The Golden Hound in the Theoi Project (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ See also: Lailaps
- ^ Karl Kerényi, The Mythology of the Greeks , Vol. II, p. 55. ISBN 3-423-01346-X