Rhodos
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Goddess of Rhodes | |
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Family
Various parents were given for Rhodos.
Rhode together with Helios or Poseidon were the ancestors of Ialysus, Cameirus and Lindus, eponyms of the cities of Rhodes.[10]
Mythology
The poet Pindar tells the story, that when the gods drew lots for the places of the earth, Helios being absent received nothing. He complained to Zeus about it, who offered to make the division again. Helios refused, for he had seen a new island about to rise from the sea. So Helios, with Zeus' consent, claimed a new island (Rhodes), which had not yet risen from the sea. And after it rose from the sea he lay with her and produced seven sons.[11] According to another source, it was Helios himself who caused the water overflowing the island to disappear, and after that he named this island "Rhodes" after Rhodos.[12]
By Helios, Rhodos was the mother of the
When Aphrodite cursed Helios and made him fall in love with a mortal princess named Leucothoe, he is said to have forgotten about Rhodos, among other lovers.[19]
Culture
While Rhodian coins were known for displaying the magnificent head of Helios, some of them showed the head of Rhodos; additionally, the rose (Greek rhodon) became the island's symbol.[20] During the Hellenistic period, she was worshipped in Rhodes as the island's tutelary goddess.[21]
Notes
- ^ Fowler 2013, pp. 14, 591–592; Hard, pp. 43, 105; Grimal, p. 404 "Rhode", pp. 404–405 "Rhodus"; Smith, "Rhode" , "Rhodos"; Pindar, Olympian 7.71–74; Diodorus Siculus, 5.56.3
- ^ Pindar, Olympian Odes 7.14
- ^ Scholia on Pindar, Olympian Odes 7.25
- ^ Herodorus, fr. 62 Fowler (Fowler 2000, p. 253), apud schol. Pindar Olympian 7.24–5; Fowler 2013, p. 591.
- ^ Diodorus Siculus, 5.55.4
- ^ Apollodorus, 1.4.5 (with Frazer's note 3); Fowler 2013, p. 14.
- ^ Epimenides, fr. 11 Fowler (Fowler 2000, p. 98); Fowler 2013, p. 14
- ^ Apollodorus, 3.14.3 n. 2 with commentary of Frazer; Fowler 2013, p. 591
- ^ Fowler 2013, p. 14
- ^ Pindar, Olympian Ode 7.54–74. According to Gantz, p. 31, this "tale survives only in Pindar (and may well be a local tradition or poetic invention)".
- ^ Diodorus Siculus, 5.56.3
- ^ Pindar, Olympian Ode 7.71–74
- ^ Diodorus Siculus, 5.56.5
- ^ Scholion to Pindar, Olympian 7.132a (Fowler 2001, p. 205), which quotes Hellanicus of Lesbos as calling their mother "Rhode" rather than "Rhodos". Fowler 2013, p. 591 in his list of the sons of Rhodos and Helios given by the scholion to Pindar, omits (apparently inadvertently) Ochimos, though he does mention him later (p. 592) as one of the brothers (along with Cercaphus) as not having participated in the murder of Tenages.
- ^ Fowler 2013, p. 592, says that "It is probably safe to assume ... but not quite certain". For Ovid's account see Metamorphoses 1.750–2.324
- ^ Gantz, p. 32; Frazer, note 2 to Apollodorus, 3.14.3; Fowler 2013, p. 591. The scholion cites "the tragedians" as his source; for an account of these two lost plays, and their being possible sources for the scholion, see Gantz, pp. 31–32.
- ^ Homer, Odyssey 12.131–133; Gantz, pp. 30, 34
- ^ Ovid, Metamorphoses 4.192–270
- ^ Larson, p. 207
- . Retrieved April 27, 2023.
References
- Apollodorus, Apollodorus, The Library, with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Diodorus Siculus, Diodorus Siculus: The Library of History. Translated by C. H. Oldfather. Twelve volumes. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1989. 5.55.
- Fowler, R. L. (2000), Early Greek Mythography: Volume 1: Text and Introduction, Oxford University Press, 2000. ISBN 978-0198147404.
- Fowler, R. L. (2013), Early Greek Mythography: Volume 2: Commentary, Oxford University Press, 2013. ISBN 978-0198147411.
- ISBN 978-0-8018-5362-3(Vol. 2).
- Grimal, Pierre, The Dictionary of Classical Mythology, Wiley-Blackwell, 1996, ISBN 978-0-631-20102-1.
- Hard, Robin, The Routledge Handbook of Greek Mythology: Based on H.J. Rose's "Handbook of Greek Mythology", Psychology Press, 2004, ISBN 9780415186360.
- Homer; The Odyssey with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, PH.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, Massachusetts., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1919. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Larson, Jennifer, Greek Nymphs: Myth, Cult, Lore, ISBN 0-19-512294-1.
- Ovid, Metamorphoses, Brookes More. Boston. Cornhill Publishing Co. 1922. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Pindar, Odes, Diane Arnson Svarlien. 1990. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Smith, William; Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London (1873).
- Chiliades, editor Gottlieb Kiessling, F.C.G. Vogel, 1826. (English translation, Books II–IV, by Gary Berkowitz. Internet Archive).