Nemea (mythology)
Nemea ( Greek Νεμέα ) is a nymph of Greek mythology . She is the goddess of the Nemean games and the eponymous (name-giving) goddess of the place Nemea in the Argolis . Like her two sisters Pandia and Ersa, she was a daughter of Zeus and Selene . She is said to have been the mother of the hero Archemoros , in whose honor the Nemean Games were held. According to other sources, Archemoros' mother was called Eurydice and the father was Lycurgus , king of Nemea.
iconography
The iconographic inventory is comparatively sparse. In addition to some lost works of art mentioned by ancient authors, a number of ancient vases and a gem depicting Heracles 'battle with the Nemean lion are known, and it is believed that Nemea is in Herakles' entourage on these works. It is difficult to prove these assumptions because Nemea cannot be assigned any clear attributes.
On one of the two Archemoros vases (see below) Nemea is indicated by an inscription. Since both vases come from Ruvo in Apulia , it is not unlikely that Nemea is also depicted on the other vase.
Archemoros Vase (Naples)
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Archemoros vase (St. Petersburg)
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literature
- Hans Christoph Ackermann (Red.): Lexicon iconographicum mythologiae classicae (LIMC) , Düsseldorf 1981–2009.
- Anders Bjørn Drachmann (ed.): Scholia vetera in Pindari carmina , Stuttgart 1997, Volume 3: Scholia in Nemeonicas .
- Johannes Overbeck: Gallery of heroic images of ancient art , Braunschweig 1853, Volume 1 [3] .
- Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (ed.): Detailed Lexicon of Greek and Roman Mythology , Leipzig 1897–1909, Volume 2.2: Laas - Myton , Column 3124-3125, 3172.
- Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (ed.): Detailed Lexicon of Greek and Roman Mythology , Leipzig 1897–1909, Volume 3.1: Nabaiothes - Pasicharea , column 115.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Roscher names the daughter of Zeus, Nemea ( Roscher, volume 2.2 , column 3172) as the namesake , and another time Nemea , the daughter of Asopus ( Roscher, volume 3.1 ).
- ↑ Scholien zu Pindar's Nemean Oden, Drachmann , page 3, lines 21-22.
- ↑ Aeschylus , Nemea [lost drama], see Scholien zu Pindar's Nemean Odes, Drachmann , page 3, lines 9-10.
- ↑ See Opheltes .
- ^ LIMC , Volume 6.1, pages 731-733.