Arné (mythology)

See also: Arné

In the Greek Mythology, Arné or Mélanippe are presented like a nymph by Pausanias.

Always according to this author, it would be the girl of Itonos (IX, 1,1) or of Éole (IX, 40,5 - without it being possible to say if it is about the god, wire of Hippotès, or the mortal , wire of Hellen). Hygin speaks in the same way, but quotes Desmontès in the place of Itonos. Only Diodore states clearly that it is the girl of the son of Hippotès.

She is especially known to be the mother of Béotos and Éole (a homonym distinct from the two precedents), conceived with Poséidon. Its history varies: according to Hygin, when its pregnancy is discovered, his/her Desmontès father the blind man and imprisons it; the children are then given to Théano, woman of Métapontos (king of Icarie), and return the years later to release their mother by killing their grandfather; Arné, to which Poséidon returns the sight, Marie then with Métapontos. According to Diodore, Arné is given by Éole to Métapontos, which adopts his/her children; but those killing later Autolyte (woman of Métapontos at Diodore), they are “both obliged to flee on sea with Arné, their mother, and several their friends. ” Strabon brings back as for him worms of Iasos according to which Béotos “would have been born from beautiful Mélanippe in the palate of Dios”.

Its history moreover is told in two lost tragedies of Euripide, Mélanippe philosophizes and Mélanippe connected .

Sources

(IV, 67).
(CLXXXVI).
(IX, 1,1; IX, 40,5).
(VI, 1).

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