Polyxo (hyade)

Polyxo ( Greek  Πολυξώ ) is one of the Hyads in Greek mythology .

According to Pherecydes , she has six sisters Ambrosia , Eudora , Pedile, Coronis, Phyto and Thyone. After caring for Dionysus in his childhood, Zeus moved all of them among the stars in gratitude, where they are now known as the Hyades cluster.

swell

• Hyginus Mythographus , Fabulae 192; De astronomia 2.21
• Pherecytes, fragment 46 in Scholion to Homer : Iliad 18,486.

literature

• Otto Höfer : Polyxo 1 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 3.2, Leipzig 1909, Col. 2745-2747 ( digitized version ).
• Lutz Käppel : Polyxo 1. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 10, Metzler, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-476-01480-0 , column 85.