Kameiro
Kameiro ( Greek Καμειρώ even Kamiro ) is in Greek mythology a daughter of Pandareos and Harmothoe. Your sister is Klytia .
In the Odyssey tells Penelope that the daughters of Pandareos (in traditions of Scholien hot to Odyssestelle they Kleothera and Merope ) - after induced by the gods death of her parents, because Pandareos had by stealing the wrath of Zeus pulled himself - of Aphrodite , Hera , Artemis and Athena were raised and given food and gifts. From Aphrodite they got nourishment in the form of cheese, honey and wine, from Hera the understanding and the beauty, from Artemis a slim body shape and from Athena feminine artistry. When Aphrodite ascended to Olympus to arrange a suitable wedding for the two of them, they were stolen by the harpies and given to the Erinyes as servants.
Kameiro was depicted with her sister Klytia on a painting by Polygnotus in the Lesche der Knidier in Delphi . In the painting, according to Pausanias , the girls playing with dice wore wreaths of flowers on their heads. Polygnotos had added the names of the two to the picture as an explanation.
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literature
- Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll : Kameiro . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 2.1, Leipzig 1894, column 944 ( digitized version ).