Amymone
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Mythology
Poseidon had dried up all the region' of Argos' 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.[4] 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 Nafplio in the Argolid.
Amymone, the blameless, was eventually reconciled with her father, and given in marriage to
Amymone/Hypermnestra is represented with a water pitcher, a reminder of the sacred springs and lake of Lerna and of the copious wells that made Argos the "well-watered" and, by contrast, a reminder that her sisters were forever punished in Tartarus for their murderous crimes by fruitlessly drawing water in pitchers with open bases.
Aeschylus wrote a now lost satyr play called Amymone about the seduction of Amymone by Poseidon, which followed the trilogy that included The Suppliants.
References
- ^ Tzóka, Spýros (10 October 2014). "Στο και πέντε / «Αμυμώνη» ίσον ζωή". Αυγή [Dawn] (in Greek). Retrieved 28 July 2023.
- ^ Smith, Benjamin E. (1895). Century Cyclopedia of Names. Vol. i. New York: Century. p. 53.
- ^ Apollodorus; Frazer, Sir James George. "Apollodorus, Library 2.1.5". Perseus Digital Library. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. Retrieved 28 July 2023.
- ISBN 978-1-947822-07-8. Retrieved 28 July 2023.