Kallidike (Queen of the Thesprots)
Kallidike ( Greek Καλλιδίκη ) is a female figure in Greek mythology . She was Queen in Epirus peaceful landscape Thesprotia and late wife of the hero Odysseus .
This reported about the connection between Kallidike and Odysseus in the 6th century BC. BC wrote the now lost epic Telegonie , which continued Homer's Odyssey . An excerpt from the Telegonia is Chrestomathie of Proclus received. The Epitome of Bibliotheke of Apollodor mentioned Callidice. According to these sources, after his return to Ithaca , the killing of his wife Penelope's suitors and a trip to Elis , Odysseus set off for Thesprotien. There he subdued Poseidon's anger by making sacrifices and entered into a marriage with Queen Kallidike. So he became ruler of her country and had a son with her named Polypoites . He also acted as a successful general of the Thresproters in their war against the neighboring Thracian tribe of Bryger . During the fight the god of war Ares stepped in on the side of the Bryger, but encountered resistance from Odysseus' patron goddess Athena ; eventually Apollo separated the warring gods. After Kallidike's death Polypoites became king of Thesprotia, while Odysseus returned to Ithaca, where he was soon killed by his son Telegonus .
literature
- Hans von Geisau: Kallidike 2). In: The Little Pauly (KlP). Volume 3, Stuttgart 1969, column 69.
Remarks
- ↑ G. Kinkel, Epicorum Graecorum Fragmenta (EGF) 57ff .; Libraries of Apollodorus , Epitome 7, 34f.