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== Mythology == |
== Mythology == |
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Arethusa was a woman from the island of [[Ithaca (island)|Ithaca]]; other than a son, no other family or lineage of hers is preserved. According to an anonymous scholiast on [[Homer]], Arethusa had a son named Corax (meaning "raven") who was a hunter.<ref>{{cite web | title = Μορφές και Θέματα της Αρχαίας Ελληνικής Μυθολογίας: Αρέθουσα | trans-title = Figures and Themes of Greek Mythology: Arethusa | url = https://www.greek-language.gr/digitalResources/ancient_greek/mythology/lexicon/metamorfoseis/page_038.html | first = Demetra | last = Metta | language = Greek | website = www.greek-language.gr | access-date = May 4, 2024}}</ref> One day while hunting a hare, Corax accidentally fell off a cliff and died. Out of grief for losing her son, the inconsolable Arethusa transformed into a fountain bearing her name on the spot Corax died, while the rock there took the name of the dead son thereafter.<ref>Scholia on the ''[[Odyssey]]'' [https://books.google.com/books?id=ksEMAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA577 408]</ref> |
Arethusa was a woman from the island of [[Ithaca (island)|Ithaca]]; other than a son, no other family or lineage of hers is preserved. According to an anonymous scholiast on [[Homer]], Arethusa had a son named Corax (meaning "raven") who was a hunter.<ref>{{cite web | title = Μορφές και Θέματα της Αρχαίας Ελληνικής Μυθολογίας: Αρέθουσα | trans-title = Figures and Themes of Greek Mythology: Arethusa | url = https://www.greek-language.gr/digitalResources/ancient_greek/mythology/lexicon/metamorfoseis/page_038.html | first = Demetra | last = Metta | language = Greek | website = www.greek-language.gr | access-date = May 4, 2024}}</ref> One day while hunting a hare, Corax accidentally fell off a cliff and died. Out of grief for losing her son, the inconsolable Arethusa transformed into a fountain bearing her name on the spot Corax died, while the rock there took the name of the dead son thereafter.<ref>Scholia on the ''[[Odyssey]]'' [https://books.google.com/books?id=ksEMAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA577 408]</ref><ref>[[Stephanus of Byzantium]] s.v. [https://topostext.org/work/241#A116.5 Arethusa]</ref> |
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In the ''[[Odyssey]]'', after returning home following a long ten-year long journey, the disguised king [[Odysseus]] finds his slave [[Eumaeus]] tending the swine which graze next to the rock of Corax and the fountain of Arethusa.<ref>[[Homer]], ''[[Odyssey]]'' [https://books.google.com/books?id=KflQEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA263 13.379-81]</ref>{{sfn|Greatheed|Parken|Williams|Conder|1809|page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=6w03AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA121 121]}} |
In the ''[[Odyssey]]'', after returning home following a long ten-year long journey, the disguised king [[Odysseus]] finds his slave [[Eumaeus]] tending the swine which graze next to the rock of Corax and the fountain of Arethusa.<ref>[[Homer]], ''[[Odyssey]]'' [https://books.google.com/books?id=KflQEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA263 13.379-81]</ref>{{sfn|Greatheed|Parken|Williams|Conder|1809|page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=6w03AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA121 121]}} |
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* {{cite book | title = The Eclectic Review | volume = V | first1 = Samuel | last1 = Greatheed | first2 = Daniel | last2 = Parken | first3 = Theophilus | last3 = Williams | first4 = Josiah | last4 = Conder | first5 = Thomas | last5 = Price | first6 = Jonathan Edwards | last6 = Ryland | first7 = Edwin | last7 = Paxton Hood | chapter = Gell's Antiquities of Ithaca | date = 1809 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=6w03AAAAYAAJ}} |
* {{cite book | title = The Eclectic Review | volume = V | first1 = Samuel | last1 = Greatheed | first2 = Daniel | last2 = Parken | first3 = Theophilus | last3 = Williams | first4 = Josiah | last4 = Conder | first5 = Thomas | last5 = Price | first6 = Jonathan Edwards | last6 = Ryland | first7 = Edwin | last7 = Paxton Hood | chapter = Gell's Antiquities of Ithaca | date = 1809 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=6w03AAAAYAAJ}} |
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* {{cite book | author = Homer | author-link = Homer | title = The Odyssey | isbn = 978-0-19-992588-9 | publisher = Oxford University Press | date = 2015 | translator = Barry P. Powell | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=KflQEAAAQBAJ}} |
* {{cite book | author = Homer | author-link = Homer | title = The Odyssey | isbn = 978-0-19-992588-9 | publisher = Oxford University Press | date = 2015 | translator = Barry P. Powell | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=KflQEAAAQBAJ}} |
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* [[Stephanus of Byzantium]], ''Ethnica'', edited by August Meineike (1790–1870), published 1849. |
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Revision as of 11:25, 5 May 2024
In Greek mythology, Arethusa (/ˌærɪˈθjuːzə/; Ancient Greek: Ἀρέθουσα, romanized: Aréthousa) is a minor figure from Ithaca who is transformed into a fountain bearing her name. Her story survives in scholia on Homer's epic poem the Odyssey.
Mythology
Arethusa was a woman from the island of Ithaca; other than a son, no other family or lineage of hers is preserved. According to an anonymous scholiast on Homer, Arethusa had a son named Corax (meaning "raven") who was a hunter.[1] One day while hunting a hare, Corax accidentally fell off a cliff and died. Out of grief for losing her son, the inconsolable Arethusa transformed into a fountain bearing her name on the spot Corax died, while the rock there took the name of the dead son thereafter.[2][3]
In the Odyssey, after returning home following a long ten-year long journey, the disguised king Odysseus finds his slave Eumaeus tending the swine which graze next to the rock of Corax and the fountain of Arethusa.[4][5]
Arethusa was a common name for springs in antiquity; today a spring with the same name in Pera Pigadi in Ithaca can been potentially identified with the mythological one, but much of this is speculative.[6]
See also
References
- ^ Metta, Demetra. "Μορφές και Θέματα της Αρχαίας Ελληνικής Μυθολογίας: Αρέθουσα" [Figures and Themes of Greek Mythology: Arethusa]. www.greek-language.gr (in Greek). Retrieved May 4, 2024.
- ^ Scholia on the Odyssey 408
- ^ Stephanus of Byzantium s.v. Arethusa
- ^ Homer, Odyssey 13.379-81
- ^ Greatheed et al. 1809, p. 121.
- ^ Strauch, Daniel (October 1, 2006). "Arethusa". In Cancik, Hubert; Schneider, Helmuth (eds.). Brill's New Pauly. Berlin: Brill Reference Online. doi:10.1163/1574-9347_bnp_e134010. ISSN 1574-9347. Retrieved May 4, 2024.
Bibliography
- Dindorf, Wilhelm, ed. (1855). Scholia Graeca in Homeri Odysseam Ex Codicibus Aucta Et Emendata. Vol. II. Typographeo Academico.
- Greatheed, Samuel; Parken, Daniel; Williams, Theophilus; Conder, Josiah; Price, Thomas; Ryland, Jonathan Edwards; Paxton Hood, Edwin (1809). "Gell's Antiquities of Ithaca". The Eclectic Review. Vol. V.
- Homer (2015). The Odyssey. Translated by Barry P. Powell. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-992588-9.
- Stephanus of Byzantium, Ethnica, edited by August Meineike (1790–1870), published 1849.