Koresos
Koresos ( Greek Κόρεσος ) is a person of Greek mythology . He was the priest of Dionysus in Kalydon .
Koresos makes offers to his lover, Kallirrhoë , which she always refuses. He becomes angry about this and asks Dionysus to punish her. Dionysus sends a plague to the residents of Kalydon that drove them mad . To find out what they can do about the plague, the Kalydonians visit the oracle Dodona . There they learn that they should vote for Dionysus by offering him Kallirrhoë or someone in their place. Despite resistance to the altar, Kallirrhoë is sacrificed . Koresos, who is supposed to perform this, becomes aware of his love again and sacrifices himself in her place, Kallirrhoë is then attacked by remorse for her hard-heartedness and also takes his own life.
swell
- Pausanias : Traveling in Greece 7, 21, 1.
literature
- Wilhelm Drexler : Koresos 1 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 2.1, Leipzig 1894, column 1380 f. ( Digitized version ).