Kastalia
Kastalia ( ancient Greek Κασταλία Kastalía , Latin Castalia ) is a figure in Greek mythology . She was a Delphic virgin, daughter of Acheloos and consort of Delphos .
While fleeing from the pursuit of Apollo , she threw herself into a source of consecration near Delphi, which has been named after her ever since. The water of the Castalian spring is said to have served as poetic inspiration for those who drank from it or listened to its soft splashing .
The subject is relatively rare in modern visual arts. Bartolomeo di Antonio Ammanati : Fountain figure for the Sala Grande in the Palazzo Vecchio, 1555–1563 (Florence, Museo Nazionale del Bargello); Eugène Guillaume : La Nymphe Castalie ou La Source de Poesie, 1883 (Lyon, Musée des Beaux Arts); Edmund von Hellmer : Kastalia in the inner courtyard of the University of Vienna, 1906; Gerhard Marcks : Kastalia 1931–1933 (plaster version in the Anger Museum, Erfurt; marble in the Gerhard Marcks House, Bremen).
In poetry, Kastalia can also be found in the work of Heinrich Heine .
literature
- Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll : Kastalia . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 2.1, Leipzig 1894, column 996 ( digitized version ).
- Gerhard Marcks, Kastalia, 1930-1932 . (Patrimonia 290), Gerhard Marcks Foundation, Bremen / Berlin 2014.