Larissa (mythology)
Larissa ( Greek Λάρισσα or Λάρισα ) is a figure in Greek mythology , sometimes passed down as a Thessalian , sometimes as an Argive heroine.
In Argos she is the daughter of the Argive king Pelasgos and a nymph . As such, it is the namesake for the Argive castle Larissa and two cities in Thessaly. There she and Poseidon were the mother of Achaios, Phthios and Pelasgos, who later emigrated to Haimonia in Thessaly.
In the Thessalian variant, she gave birth to Poseidon the sons Phthios and Pelasgos after she fell into the river Peneios while playing ball.
Strabo reports of a Larisa from Larisa am Hermos in Asia Minor that she drowned her father Piasus in a wine barrel before marrying Kyzikos because he had attacked her.
The fifth moon on the planet Neptune was named after her.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hellanikos , Fragments of the Greek Historians 4 F 91; Pausanias 2, 24, 1.
- ^ Euphorion in a Scholion to Apollonios of Rhodos, Argonautika 1, 1063; Parthenios of Nicaea 28.
- ↑ Strabon, Geographica 13, 3, 4; after Otto Höfer : Piasos . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 3.2, Leipzig 1909, Col. 2493 f. ( Digitized version ) probably identical to Larissa treated here.
literature
- Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll : Larissa 1 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 2.2, Leipzig 1897, Sp. 1898-1901 ( digitized version ).