Kleite (wife of Erylaos)
Kleite ( ancient Greek Κλείτη or Κλειτή , Latin clite ) is a figure in Greek mythology .
The Troy girl Kleite is the wife of Erylaos and mother of Meilanion, who was born on the banks of the Kaïkos in Mysia . Her husband is killed by Patroclus in a fight with a stone throw in the forehead by Patroclus in the Trojan War , her son dies, hit by a lance of Antiphos , also in the Trojan War.
Remarks
- ↑ Quintus of Smyrna , Posthomerica 8, 119-121.
- ↑ Homer , Iliad 16: 411-414.
literature
- Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll : Kleite 3 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 2.1, Leipzig 1894, column 1220 ( digitized version ).
- Georg Weicker : Kleite 3. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume XI, 1, Stuttgart 1921, column 655.