Mycenae (mythology)

Mycenae ( Greek  Μυκήνη ) is a laconic Naiad of Greek mythology and eponymous namesake of the city of Mycenae .

She is mentioned for the first time in Homer's Odyssey, together with Alkmene and Tyro, as a representative of the early art- savvy Achaeans . According to Pausanias she is - ascribed as a nymph in the Eoien / epic of the poet Hesiod - the daughter of the river god Inachos and the Oceanid Melia as well as the wife of Areston .

literature

• Karl Tümpel: Mycenae . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 2.2, Leipzig 1897, column 3305 ( digitized version ).

Web links

• Mycenae in Theoi Project (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Eustathios : Commentaries on the Iliad and Odyssey 289, 74. ( online ) (Latin)
2. ↑ Nonnos von Panopolis , Dionysiaka , 41, 267 ( online ) (en)
3. ↑ Homer : Odyssey 2, 120. ( online ( Memento of November 10, 2012 in the Internet Archive ))
4. ↑ Pausanias 2, 16, 4. ( online ) (en)
5. ↑ Hesiod : Eoien Fragment 156.