Ilione
Ilione ( Greek Ἰλιόνη , Latin Iliona ) is in Greek mythology the oldest daughter of Priam and Hecabe and wife of the Thracian prince Polymestor . She raised the youngest brother Polydoros, entrusted to her by her parents, as her own son, while she passed off her real son Deipylos as Polydoros. When the Greeks, who wanted to kill all of Priam's descendants, promised the Polymestor Electra as a woman for the murder of the supposed Polydoros , Polymestor killed his own son.
What had really happened was revealed when the real Polydoros turned to the oracle of Apollo to ask about his parents . This answered him that his city was burned down, his father dead and his mother in bondage. When Polydoros spoke to Ilione about this supposedly false information from the oracle, she revealed the actual facts to him, whereupon Polydoros blinded and killed the Polymestor. Elsewhere, Hyginus says that Ilione killed her husband and then herself.
The Roman poet Marcus Pacuvius wrote a tragedy Iliona .
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- Hyginus Mythographus Fabulae 90, 109, 240, 243, 254
- Maurus Servius Honoratius Commentarius in Virgilii Aeneida 1,635
- Virgil Aeneid 1,653f
literature
- Samson Eitrem: Ilione. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume IX, 1, Stuttgart 1914, Col. 1066.
- Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll : Ilione . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 2.1, Leipzig 1894, column 118 ( digitized version ).
- Katharina Waldner: Ilione. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 5, Metzler, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-476-01475-4 , column 935 f.