Karya
Karya ( Greek Καρύα , "walnut") is a figure in Greek mythology .
According to Servius in his commentary on the Eclogues of Virgil she was a daughter of Dion, king of Laconia . She was also the lover of Dionysus , who turned her into a walnut, and the priestess of Artemis . The myth is associated with the nut town of Karyai in Laconia, which, according to Pausanias and the Thebais of Statius, had a close relationship with Artemis Karyatis .
Pherenikos , a Greek epic of an indefinite, perhaps Hellenistic period, counts her among the hamadryads , those nymphs who live in trees and are closely connected with the fate of the tree. In the genealogy of the Hamadryads handed down by Pherenikos at Athenaios , she is a daughter of Oxylos , the son of Oreios , and his sister Hamadryas . Her sisters, whose names were handed down to Athenaios, were Balanos , Kraneia , Orea , Aigeiros , Ptelea , Ampelos and Syke . According to Pherenikos, she had other sisters. Each of these daughters was the inspiration for the Greek name of a tree species. The walnut tree belonged to Karya ( hazel and walnut trees , possibly also the sweet chestnut ).
literature
- Ada Adler : Karya 1. In: Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume X, 2, Stuttgart 1919, column 2244 ( digitized version ).
- Wilhelm Drexler : Karya . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 2.1, Leipzig 1894, Col. 969 f. ( Digitized version ).
Web links
- Hamadryades in the Theoi Project (English)