Kleodore
Kleodore ( ancient Greek Κλεοδώρη Kleodṓre , also Κλεοδώρα Kleodṓra ) is in Greek mythology a daughter of Danaos , the king of Libya , and the naiad Polyxo . She is therefore one of the Danaids .
At the mass wedding of the 50 daughters of Danaos with the 50 sons of Aigyptus , at which lot decided on the pairing, she was assigned Lixos , the son of the naiad Kaliadne , as her husband. Like most of her sisters, she killed her husband on their wedding night.
literature
- Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll : Kleodora 1 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 2.1, Leipzig 1894, column 1222 ( digitized version ).
- Karl Scherling : Kleodora 1 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume XI, 1, Stuttgart 1921, Sp. 675 - {{{SE}}}.
Remarks
- ↑ Libraries of Apollodor 2,1,5.