Hemithea, originally named
Molpadia, daughter of
Staphylus and
Chrysothemis, sister of
Parthenos and
Rhoeo. According to
Diodorus Siculus,[1] she and Parthenos were put in charge of watching after their father's wine but fell asleep while performing this duty, and while they were asleep, the wine jar was broken by the swine their family kept. When the sisters woke up, they saw what had happened. In fear of their father's wrath, threw themselves off a cliff both muttering the name of Apollo.
Apollo, who was in love with Rhoeo, would not let her sisters die and granted both of them immortality. Molpadia's name was changed to Hemithea upon her deification.
Parthenius[2] makes Hemithea mother of
Basileus by
Lyrcus; in his version of the story, Hemithea apparently had this name since birth and nothing is said of her deification; however, Staphylus and his daughters' home is located in Bubastus, right where Hemithea came to be worshipped in Diodorus' account.
Hemithea, also known as
Amphithea[3] or
Leucothea,[4] the sister of
Tenes, who was placed into a chest and set into the sea together with her brother. They landed on an island which was later named
Tenedos, of which Tenes became king.[5] Tenes ended his life in a battle with
Achilles, who then attempted to rape Hemithea. She ran off to escape him and was swallowed up in a chasm of the earth.[6]
Conon, Fifty Narrations, surviving as one-paragraph summaries in the Bibliotheca (Library) of Photius, Patriarch of Constantinople translated from the Greek by Brady Kiesling.
Online version at the Topos Text Project.
Stephanus of Byzantium, Stephani Byzantii Ethnicorum quae supersunt, edited by August Meineike (1790-1870), published 1849. A few entries from this important ancient handbook of place names have been translated by Brady Kiesling.
Online version at the Topos Text Project.
This article includes a list of Greek mythological figures with the same or similar names. If an
internal link for a specific Greek mythology article referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended Greek mythology article, if one exists.
Hemithea, originally named
Molpadia, daughter of
Staphylus and
Chrysothemis, sister of
Parthenos and
Rhoeo. According to
Diodorus Siculus,[1] she and Parthenos were put in charge of watching after their father's wine but fell asleep while performing this duty, and while they were asleep, the wine jar was broken by the swine their family kept. When the sisters woke up, they saw what had happened. In fear of their father's wrath, threw themselves off a cliff both muttering the name of Apollo.
Apollo, who was in love with Rhoeo, would not let her sisters die and granted both of them immortality. Molpadia's name was changed to Hemithea upon her deification.
Parthenius[2] makes Hemithea mother of
Basileus by
Lyrcus; in his version of the story, Hemithea apparently had this name since birth and nothing is said of her deification; however, Staphylus and his daughters' home is located in Bubastus, right where Hemithea came to be worshipped in Diodorus' account.
Hemithea, also known as
Amphithea[3] or
Leucothea,[4] the sister of
Tenes, who was placed into a chest and set into the sea together with her brother. They landed on an island which was later named
Tenedos, of which Tenes became king.[5] Tenes ended his life in a battle with
Achilles, who then attempted to rape Hemithea. She ran off to escape him and was swallowed up in a chasm of the earth.[6]
Conon, Fifty Narrations, surviving as one-paragraph summaries in the Bibliotheca (Library) of Photius, Patriarch of Constantinople translated from the Greek by Brady Kiesling.
Online version at the Topos Text Project.
Stephanus of Byzantium, Stephani Byzantii Ethnicorum quae supersunt, edited by August Meineike (1790-1870), published 1849. A few entries from this important ancient handbook of place names have been translated by Brady Kiesling.
Online version at the Topos Text Project.
This article includes a list of Greek mythological figures with the same or similar names. If an
internal link for a specific Greek mythology article referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended Greek mythology article, if one exists.