Okyroë (daughter of Cheiron)

Zeus and Okyroë on a shooting target from 1752 with the Ovid quote Mallem nescisse futura ("I wish I hadn't known the future.")

Okyroë , also Okyrrhoë , ( Greek  Ὠκυρόη or Ὠκυρρόη , Latin Ocyrhoë ) is a figure from Greek mythology .

She was the daughter of the centaur Chiron and the nymph Chariklo . She had the gift of prophecy . Zeus turned her into a mare because she had prophesied without permission, and she was given the name Hippe or Hippo. Their story is told in the Metamorphoses of Ovid tells (2, 635-675). The theme of this metamorphosis was also taken up in a lost tragedy by Euripides .

literature

• Lutz Käppel: Okyr (r) oe 4. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 8, Metzler, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-476-01478-9 , Sp. 1158.
• Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll : Okyroë 4 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 3.1, Leipzig 1902, column 828 ( digitized version ).