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