Pandrosos
Pandrosos ( Greek Πάνδροσος ) is in Greek mythology the daughter of Kekrops I and Aglauros , sister of Erysichthon , Herse and Aglauros .
According to the library of Apollodorus , Athene gave Erichthonios , who was hidden in a box, into the care of the Pandrosos on the condition that the box not be opened. However, her sisters could not resist and broke the ban. When they opened the box, the child was lying in it with a snake on its chest. The snake now either killed the siblings directly or they were driven insane by the snake, according to other accounts by Athena, and thrown themselves from the Acropolis in Athens . According to Ovid , Pandrosos was complicit because Aglauros asked her to look into the ark herself. Euripides does not distinguish the degree of offense or involvement between the sisters.
Her function was that of a dew goddess (ὁ δρόσος Tau ), so she was fertility goddess and connected with the agricultural sector. She had a sanctuary on the Athens Acropolis next to the temple of Athene Polias, the Pandroseion , which already existed in Helladic times and was important in Mycenaean times . Here she was worshiped together with Thallo ( Greek Θαλλώ = the flower-bringer ).
Iulius Pollux calls her the mother of Keryx , who usually descends from Aglauros and Hermes .
literature
- Heinrich Lewy : Pandrosos 1) . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 3.1, Leipzig 1902, Col. 1530 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Walter Pötscher : Pandrosos. In: The Little Pauly (KlP). Volume 4, Stuttgart 1972, Col. 454 f.