Klytia (daughter of Merops)

Clytia ( ancient Greek Κλυτία even Klytie, Latin Clytia ) is in Greek mythology the daughter of Merops , king of Kos , and wife of Poseidon son Eurypylos by it's mother chalcone (or Chalkodon) and Antagoras is.

When Demeter wandered around looking for her daughter Persephone , who had been abducted by Hades , Klytia and Eurypylos welcomed the goddess and entertained her.

swell

• Scholion to Theocritus , Idyll 7, 5

literature

• Hans von Geisau : Klytia 4. In: Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume XI, 1, Stuttgart 1921, column 894 ( digitized version ).
• Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll : Klytia 4 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 2.1, Leipzig 1894, column 1246 ( digitized version ).