Lethaia

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Lethaia ( Greek  Ληθαία ), wife of Olenos , is a figure in Greek mythology .

The couple has only come down to us from one place in Ovid . Apparently Lethaia had boasted of her beauty to a goddess - an offense that could not go unpunished. Olenos wanted to take the punishment, after which both were turned into stones.

Ovid's formulation umida Ide (“ source- rich Ide”) is interpreted to mean that the scene of the event was the Trojan Ida Mountains .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ovid, Metamorphoses 10.68 ff.
  2. Stowasser , Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky, Vienna 1971, p. 512.