Cleopatra (daughter of Boreas)
Cleopatra ( Greek Κλεοπάτρα ) was, according to Greek mythology, the daughter of the wind god Boreas and Oreithyia , the daughter of the Attic king Erechtheus . Furthermore Cleopatra was the sister of the Boreads Kalaïs and Zetes as well as the Chione .
She spent her childhood and youth on the storm-ravaged Sarpedon rock. She married King Phineus of Thrace, who resided at Salmydessus on the Black Sea . Their marriage resulted in two sons, Plexippus and Pandion . When Phineus took Idaia , a daughter of the Scythian king Dardanus , as his second wife after Cleopatra's repudiation , she defamed her step-sons, who were then blinded by Phineus or by Idaia herself and cruelly kept in a dungeon.
In a slightly different version, extensively handed down by the Sicilian historian Diodorus , Phineus had his first wife Cleopatra imprisoned and her sons flogged in the cellar vault on lying accusations by Idaia, but the victims were ultimately by the Argonauts , especially Cleopatra’s brothers, the Boreads, and from Heracles , delivered. In the resulting tumult, Phineus was slain by Heracles, while Cleopatra's sons were now able to take office, which they handed over to their mother when they took part in the Argonaut procession.
In the various traditions of the saga, other names of Cleopatra's sons are also given; so they are also called Terymbas and Aspondos or Oreithyios and Krambos ( Krambis ) or Parthenios and Krambis or Polymedes and Klytios .
literature
- Samson Eitrem : Cleopatra 1) . In: Pauly's real encyclopedia of classical antiquity , vol. XI 1, Stuttgart 1921, col. 732f.
Remarks
- ↑ Libraries of Apollodorus 3, 200; Diodorus 4, 43, 3-44, 6; Hyginus , Fabulae 18; Sophocles , Antigone 966ff. and scholias to verses 971 and 981; Ovid , Remedia amoris 454; Scholia to Apollonios of Rhodes 1, 211; 2, 140; 2, 178; 2, 207; 2, 238; Scholia to Homer , Odyssey 12, 69; Servius to Virgil , Aeneid 3, 209 (who gives Cleopatra the name Cleobule ).
- ↑ Scholien zu Sophocles, Antigone 971 and 981.
- ↑ Scholien zu Apollonios von Rhodes 2, 140 and 2, 178.
- ↑ Anthologia Palatina 3, 4.