Kleisidike

Kleisidike ( ancient Greek Κλεισιδίκη ) is a daughter of King Keleos of Eleusis and Metaneira in Greek mythology . Together with her sisters Kallidike , Demo and Kallithoe, she meets the goddess Demeter at the Virgin Fountain of Eleusis, who is resting there in the form of an old woman in search of her daughter Persephone , who was stolen by Hades , and invites her to her father's house.

literature

• Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll : Kleisidike . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 2.1, Leipzig 1894, column 1219 ( digitized version ).
• Otto Kern : Kleisidike. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume XI, 1, Stuttgart 1921, Column X-618.

swell

• Homeric Hymn to Demeter 110