Skaia
Skaia ( ancient Greek Σκαία Skaía ) is in Greek mythology a daughter of Danaos , the king of Libya , and Europe , a daughter of Neilos . She is therefore one of the Danaids .
At the mass wedding of the 50 daughters of Danaos with the 50 sons of Aigyptus , at which lot decided on the pairing, her Daiphron was assigned as husband. Like most of her sisters, she killed her husband on their wedding night.
According to Pausanias , she was the wife of Archandros , a son of Achaios , the eponymous hero of the Achaeans . With him she had Metanastes as a son.
literature
- Otto Höfer : Skaia . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 4, Leipzig 1915, column 974 ( digitized version ).
Remarks
- ↑ Libraries of Apollodor 2,1,5.
- ↑ Pausanias 7,1,6.