Kleite (daughter of Danaos)
Kleite ( ancient Greek Κλείτη ) is a daughter of Danaos , the king of Libya , and Memphis in Greek mythology . She is therefore one of the Danaids and is the sister of Chrysippe and Sthenele by the same mother .
While in most of the other weddings of the 50 daughters of Danaos, the Danaids, with the 50 sons of Aegyptus the lot decided on the pairing, with the three sisters the similarity of the names formed the basis for the choice of the husband. So Kleite was married to Kleitus , while Chrysippe received Chrysippus and Sthenele received Sthenelos as husband.
In the incomplete catalog of the daughters of Danaos in Hyginus Mythographus , both Kleite and Kleitos are missing.
literature
- Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll : Kleite 1 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 2.1, Leipzig 1894, column 1220 ( digitized version ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Libraries of Apollodor 2, 1, 5.
- ^ Hyginus Mythographus, Fabulae 170.