Hippodameia (daughter of Danaos)
Hippodameia ( ancient Greek Ίπποδάμεια Hippodámeia ) is in Greek mythology, according to the library of Apollodorus, the name of two daughters of Danaos , the twin brother of Aigyptus . Their mothers were therefore the Hamadryads Atlanteie and Phoibe .
For the mass wedding of the 50 daughters of Danaos with the 50 sons of Aigyptus , at which lot decided on the pairing, they were assigned Istros and Diokorystes , sons of an Arab mother, as husbands. Like all of their sisters with the exception of the Hypermestra , they killed their husbands on their wedding night.
Christian Gottlob Heyne already considered the double mention of the name in his critical edition of the Apollodorus Library to be suspicious and suggested the correction of the second mention to Cleodameia or Philodameia, since a Philodameia is mentioned by Pausanias as the daughter of Danaos. Richard Wagner in his edition of the Greek text of the library , which is still valid today, corrected this on Phylodameia, according to the tradition in Pausanias, and also listed Hippothoe as a possible name, since Hyginus Mythographus mentions such a name in his catalog of the Danaids. Phylodameia or Hippothoe is the wife of Diokorystes in this reading.
literature
- Otto Höfer : Hippodameia 7 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,2, Leipzig 1890, column 2672 ( digitized version ).
- Johannes Zwicker : Hippodameia 9. In: Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume VIII, 2, Stuttgart 1913, Col. 1730.
Remarks
- ↑ Libraries of Apollodor 2,1,5.
- ^ Christian Gottlob Heyne: Apollodori Bibliothecae libri tres ad codd. mss. fidem recensiti. Johann Christian Dieterich , Göttingen 1783, p. 270 on the spot ( digitized version ).
- ↑ Pausanias 4,30,2.
- ^ Richard Wagner: Mythographi Graeci. Volume 1: Apollodori bibliotheca. Teubner, Leipzig 1894, p. 55 on the spot ( digitized version ).
- ^ Hyginus Mythographus, Fabulae 170.
- ↑ So Johannes Zwicker : Hippodameia 9. In: Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen antiquity science (RE). Volume VIII, 2, Stuttgart 1913, Col. 1730.