Mestra
Mestra is the daughter of the Thessalian prince Erysichthon and a granddaughter of Triopas , a son of Poseidon . He once deflowered his great-granddaughter and given her the gift of transformation. Erysichthon rose to fell one of the Demeter or Ceres holy oaks. Thereupon the goddess of fertility punished him with insatiable hunger. In order to get money to buy food, Erysichthon sold Mestra, who had transformed into a mare, a bird, a cow and a doe, to buyers whom she ran away after buying them until her father finally tore himself apart.
Mestra was the wife of Autolycus .
literature
- Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll : Mestra . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 2.2, Leipzig 1897, Col. 2845 f. ( Digitized version ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Callimachos , Hymnos to Demeter 114
- ^ Antoninus Liberalis , Metamorphoses 17 calls him Aithon, his daughter Hypermestra.
- ↑ Ovid , Metamorphosen 8, 872 therefore calls them Triopeïs.
- ↑ In Callimachos, Hymnos to Demeter 37, it is a poplar.
- ^ Ovid, Metamorphosen 8, 738-878
- ^ Ovid, Metamorphoses 8, 738