Amymone
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https://term.museum-digital.de/md-de/persinst/162432
- Name (English)
- Amymone
- Short name
- Amymone
- Short Description
- "In Greek mythology, Amymone (Ancient Greek: Αμυμωνη means the "blameless" one) was a daughter of Danaus, king of Libya and Europe, a queen. As the "blameless" Danaid, her name identifies her as, perhaps, identical to Hypermnestra ("great wooing" or "high marriage"), also the one Danaid who did not assassinate her Egyptian husband on their wedding night, as her 49 sisters did. (See the myth at the entry for Danaus.) The author of the Bibliotheca, in his list of names for the Danaids, does mention both Hypermnestra and Amymone, however (Library 2.1.5).
Poseidon, in archaic times the consort of the two goddesses Demeter and Persephone in Argos,[citation needed] had dried up all the region's springs after the Argolid was awarded to the protection of Hera. It would appear from the myth that Poseidon preceded Hera in the heartland of her cult. But he rescued Amymone from a chthonic satyr that was about to rape her. To possess her himself, the god revealed the springs of Lerna, a cult site of great antiquity near the shores of the Argolid. To Poseidon she bore Nauplius, "the navigator", who gave his name to the port city of Argos." - (en.wikipedia.org 09.01.2021) - Entity Encoding
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Amymone mit Poseidon
Amymone im Gespräch mit...
Object information
Image: Museum August Kestner - CC BY-NC-SA
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