Theano (daughter of Kisseus)
Theano ( ancient Greek Θεανώς ) is a mythological figure from the legends around Troy . She was a Trojan priestess to Athena .
Theano is the daughter of the Thracian king Kisseus and the daughter of Ilos , Thelekleia . According to Euripides , she is also the sister of Hecabe . She is married to Antenor and has numerous children with him, the so-called Antenorids , including Agenor , Akamas , Archelochos , Eurymachos , Glaukos and Iphidamas . It has a special role in the history of the Trojan War, especially for the Greeks, it is of particular importance. As the Athenian priestess, before the outbreak of war, she received the Greek embassy, who asked for Helena to be surrendered . With Antenor she takes the ambassadors into her house and protects them from the attempted murder of the Priamos sons . She offers Athena a valuable robe from Hecabe and asks that her city be spared. Athena, who was on the side of the Greeks, did not listen to her priestess. After the fall of Troy, the Greeks spared their house. After the end of the war, Theano emigrated with her family and Helena to Cyrene , Illyria or the Po Valley , depending on tradition .
Theano is not shown often in ancient art. An outstanding example of a representation is a pictorial representation in the Lesche der Knidier in Delphi . In addition, there are representations in Greek vase painting , for example on a vase by Onesimos , on the Astarita crater and several times on works by the Eretria painter . Works that are sure or likely to show Theano include:
- Attic red-figure kantharos by the Eretria painter ( Museo Ettore Pomarici Santomasi in Gravina in Puglia , inventory number 177009)
- Attic red-figure volute crater by the Peleus painter ( Museo Archeologico Provinciale in Bari, inventory number TOMB11)
- Attic red-figure kylix of Euphronius and Onesimos ( J. Paul Getty Museum , Malibu, inventory number 121110)
- Attic red-figure calyx crater by the Cleophrades Painter (Art Market, Basel)
- Attic red-figure amphoriskus by the Eretria Painter (Ashmolean Museum, inventory number G303)
- Attic red-figure kylix of the Eretria painter ( Museo Nazionale di Spina in Ferrara, inventory number Ferrara)
- Attic red-figure hydria by a painter comparable to Polygnotos ( National Archaeological Museum in Athens, inventory number 30116)
literature
- Katharina Waldner: Theano [1]. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 12/1, Metzler, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-476-01482-7 , Sp. 253.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Homer : Iliad 6,298-300; 11.223-224; Scholia to Euripides: Hecuba 3
- ↑ Euripides: Hecuba 3
- ↑ Homer: Iliad 6,269-311
- ↑ Bakchylides 15
- ↑ Pausanias 10:27, 3
- ↑ Pindar : Pythian 5.82 to 88
- ^ Servius : commentarius in Vergilii Aeneida 1,242
- ↑ Virgil : Aeneid 1.242-249; 7,320; 10,703-705
- ↑ Beazley Archive 8063
- ↑ Beazley Archive 8482
- ↑ Beazley Archive 13363
- ↑ Beazley Archive 201700
- ↑ Beazley Archive 216946
- ↑ Beazley Archives 216989
- ↑ Beazley Archive 9032554