Oinone (nymph)

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Oinone (also: Oenone, Önone, Greek  Οἰνώνη ) was a mountain nymph in Greek mythology who married the shepherd Paris , who later turned out to be a royal Trojan prince and rejected her because of Helen .

Pieter Lastman : Paris and Önone, 1619

Her father was the river god Kebren . Paris , which his mother Hekabe had abandoned on Mount Ida because she had dreamed before he was born that he would set the city on fire, fell in love with Oinone and they lived together as shepherd and shepherdess in the rugged Phrygian mountains. Oinone bore Paris a son, Corythus . After the prince, who still believed he was a simple shepherd, decided in favor of Aphrodite in the Paris judgment and earned Helena as a reward for it, he took part in his own funeral games in Troy , was recognized as the prince believed to be dead and was back in added to the Trojan royal family. He ignored Oinone's warnings, drove to Sparta , kidnapped Helena and wanted nothing more to do with his first wife. Injured and abandoned, Oinone lived alone on the Ida for twenty years. To her sorrow, the grown-up Korythos fell in love with the Greek Helena; Paris did not recognize his son and slew him out of jealousy.

Engraving by Jacques Joseph Coiny after Agostino Carracci : Paris and Önone

When Paris was badly wounded by the Greek archer Philoctetes with a poisoned arrow of Heracles in the Trojan War that he had conjured up with the robbery of Helen , he let himself be carried to Oinone on the Ida and implored her to save him, since she was Was known to be a healer and possessed an antidote . However, she refused to help him because she could not forgive him for leaving her then. Paris was brought back to Troy. Then Oinone regretted she had been so hard and hurried after him with the cure. But Paris had already died in agony. She made a funeral pyre for him and, when he was on fire, jumped into the fire to join her beloved dead.

Oinone embodies the abandoned woman. In painting , the bucolic idyll with Paris is preferred before he learned his true identity .

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In Ovid's Heroides , Oinone's reaction to the breach of loyalty by Paris and her deep emotional wound begins in the fifth letter.

Quintus de Smyrna , The Fall of Troy (Posthomerica), Book 10, 252–489.

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