Metope (nymph)
Metope ( ancient Greek Μετώπη Metṓpē ) is in Greek mythology a spring nymph from the area of Stymphalos in the north-eastern Peloponnese , which is why it is called Stymphalis by Pindar . It may have been connected to a spring at the foot of Mount Kyllene , which, depending on the season, also appeared as a Stymphalian lake or a river.
Her father was the river god Ladon , her mother, according to a scholion, the Stymphalis . Metope was married to the river god Asopos , with whom she had numerous children, including the sons Ismenos and Pelasgos or Pelagon, who was worshiped as the son of both in Phleius . More important were the common daughters, whose names are not passed down unanimously in ancient literature and who first established the importance of Asopos. The library of Apollodorus knew twenty of them, Diodorus reports twelve. These included Kerkyra , Salamis , Aigina , Peirene , Kleone , Thebe , Tanagra , Thespia , Asopis , Sinope , Oinia , Chalkis . All of them played a prominent role in mythology and in the political dependencies of the places traced back to them, mostly of the same name. Claudius Aelianus reports of a veneration of the metope among the Stymphalians in his Varia historia.
literature
- Otto Höfer , Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll : Metope (1) . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 2.2, Leipzig 1897, column 2942 ( digitized version ).
Remarks
- ↑ Pindar, Olympic Odes 6,84.
- ^ Ernst Curtius : Peloponnesos: A historical-geographical description of the peninsula. Volume 1. Perthes, Gotha 1851, p. 202 ( digitized version ).
- ↑ Scholion zu Pindar, Olympic Oden 6,143.
- ↑ Diodorus 4.72.
- ↑ Diodorus 4.72.
- ^ Adolf Klügmann : Asopos . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,1, Leipzig 1886, Col. 642 f. ( Digitized version ).
- ↑ Aelianus, Varia historia 2,33.