Kabye (mythology)
Kabye or Kambyse ( Greek Καβύη, Καμβύση Kabýē, Kambýsē ) is a figure in Greek mythology .
She was the daughter of the Epic king Opus and wife of the Legian king Lokros . When she became pregnant by Zeus , Lokros raised the child like his own and named it Opus , after Kabye's father. In another version, Kabye gave birth to her husband a son named after his father, Lokros.
In addition to the different spellings of the name ( Kabye , Kambyse ), the interpretation of Pindar's text is particularly confusing. The assumption that he had named that daughter of the epic opus Protogeneia is probably wrong. Pindar linked the Locrian noble families with the Epeic, which made it necessary to duplicate various names. The eponym of the city of Opus in the Opuntian (eastern) Lokris, father of the Kambyse / Kabye, probably originally had nothing to do with the king of Elis .
literature
- William Abbott Oldfather : Kabye. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume X, 2, Stuttgart 1919, Col. 1453-1455.
- Balduin Lorentz : Kabye . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 2.1, Leipzig 1894, column 824 ( digitized version ).
- Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher : Kambyse . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 2.1, Leipzig 1894, column 943 ( digitized version ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Pindar Olympien 9, 51 ff. And 9, 85 ff.