Panthalis
Panthalis is a character in Greek mythology. She was a servant of Helena . It is only mentioned in Pausanias 10, 25, 4 in the description of the wall painting of Ilioupersis by Polygnotos in the Lesche der Knidier in Delphi .
Literary reception
With Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Panthalis appears as choir leader for almost the entire 3rd act of Faust II .
Panthalis is the companion of Helena and as a character nothing more than "a girl" or "a loyal companion". In contrast to the other girls in the choir - who remain as the branches whispering , shoreline or waves in the daylight - at the end of their performance she goes back to Hades to Helena and Persephone with the verse 9981-9984:
- Whoever has not earned a name or wants something noble
- Belongs to the elements; so go there!
- To be with my queen is very demanding of me;
- Not only merit, but also loyalty preserves us the person.
Others
The name of the literary figure was adopted for biological classification designations. There is the biological genus name Panthalis , which was introduced in 1856 by Johan Gustaf Hjalmar Kinberg . There is also the butterfly species Diaethria nystographa panthalis , which occurs in Venezuela and was first described by Honrath in 1884.
Individual evidence
literature
- Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll : Panthalis . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 3.1, Leipzig 1902, column 1554 ( digitized version ).
- J. Schmidt: Panthalis. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume XVIII, 3, Stuttgart 1949, Col. 696 f.