Metaneira (mythology)

Demeter and Metaneira, detail of an Apulian red-figure hydria , Antikensammlung Berlin (1984.46)

Metaneira ( Greek  Μετάνειρα ) is in Greek mythology the wife of Keleos and the mother of Demophon and Triptolemos . She received the goddess Demeter on her arrival in Attica.

In the same role appears in Ovid and Antoninus Liberalis a woman named Misme , mother of ascalabus . She also picks up the goddess and hands her the kykeon , a mixed drink that the exhausted person drinks greedily, whereupon she is mocked by ascalabos. The angry goddess then transforms the ascalabus into a lizard. According to Karl Müller , Misme can be identified with the Orphic-Eleusinian Mise .

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• Homeric Hymn 2 To Demeter 161.
• Libraries of Apollodorus 1.5
• Ovid Metamorphoses 5, 450.
• Antoninus Liberalis Metamorphoses 23.

literature

• Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll : Metaneira . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 2.2, Leipzig 1897, column 2847 ( digitized version ).
• Karl Tümpel: Misme . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 2.2, Leipzig 1897, Col. 3027 f. ( Digitized version ).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Karl Müller Fragmenta historicorum graecorum vol. 2, p. 339