Kleite
Kleite ( Greek Κλείτη , "the famous", Latin Clite ) is a daughter of Merops Perkosios in Greek mythology .
Shortly after the wedding with the Dolion king Kyzikos , the son of Aineus , Kleite had to mourn the death of his husband. He was killed in a fighting game with the Argonauts . Although the Argonauts mourned, shaved their heads and held funeral games , the mourning remained too great that she hanged herself from a tree at night. The Kleite spring originated from her tears or the weeping nymphs of the grove.
swell
- Apollonios of Rhodes Argonautika 1,974ff., 1063ff.
- Scholion to Apollonios of Rhodes 1.1065f
- Orpheus Argonautika 593ff.
- Parthenios from Nicaea Erotica pathemata 28 in Mythographi Graeci vol. 2
- Etymologicum magnum (ed.Gaisford, Oxford 1848) p. 518, 2
literature
- Annemarie Ambühl: Kleite. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 6, Metzler, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-476-01476-2 , Sp. 572.
- H. Fränkel: Notes to the Argonautica of Apollonios. 1968, pp. 130f
- S. Jackson: Apollonius of Rhodes: The Cleite and Byblis Suicides. In: Studi italiani di filologia classica 15 (1997), pp. 48-54
- Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll : Kleite 2 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 2.1, Leipzig 1894, column 1220 ( digitized version ).