Kaineus
Kaineus ( old Greek: Καινεύς from καινόω = to redesign ) is a figure in Greek mythology . He is one of the invulnerable Lapiths , son of the Lapithic prince Elatos , who was buried under tree trunks by them during the battle with the Centaurs and thereby crushed.
Kaineus was among others in Ovid's Metamorphoses a girl with the name Kainis (Latin Caenis), who was raped by the sea god Poseidon . Out of regret, he then complied with the request to turn him into an ugly, strong and invulnerable man so that something like this would never happen to him again.
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- Homer , Iliad 1,264
- Apollonios of Rhodes , Argonautika 1,57ff.
- Libraries of Apollodorus 1,112
- Ovid , Metamorphoses 12, 171-209. 459-531
literature
- Hans von Geisau: Kaineus. In: The Little Pauly (KlP). Volume 3, Stuttgart 1969, column 47.
- Françoise Lecocq: Caeneus auis unica (Ovide: Mét. 12, 532) est-il le phénix? In: Le phénix et son Autre. Poétique d'un mythe - des origines au XVI e siècle. Edited by Laurence Gosserez. Presses Universitaires de Rennes, Rennes 2013 ( Collection "Interférences" ), ISBN 978-2-7535-2735-5 , pp. 211-220.
Web links
- Photos of representations of Kainis / Kaineus in art, in the Warburg Institute Iconographic Database