Polycaste

Character from Greek mythology, daughter of Nestor

Polycaste (/ˌpɒlɪˈkæsti/; Ancient Greek: Πολυκάστη) is the name of several different women in Greek mythology:

  • Polycaste, a princess of Pylos and daughter of King Nestor and Eurydice[1] (or Anaxibia[2]). She was sister to Thrasymedes, Peisistratus, Pisidice, Perseus, Stratichus, Aretus, Echephron and Antilochus. Polycaste bathed Telemachus on his way to Pylos and later married him. They had a son, Persepolis.[3][4]
  • Polycaste, daughter of Lygaeus. She was married to Icarius, by whom she became the mother of Penelope, Alyzeus and Leucadius.[4][5]
  • Polycaste, sister of Daedalus and the mother of Perdix. Because her brother killed her son, she laughed with joy when she saw Icarus (Daedalus' own son) fall into the sea and drown when he had flown too close to the sun.[citation needed]

Notes

  1. ^ Homer, Odyssey 3.464
  2. ^ Apollodorus, 1.9.9
  3. ^ Scholia ad Odyssey 16.118; Eustathius ad Odyssey 3.464
  4. ^ a b Schmitz, Leonhard (1867). "Polycaste (I) and (II)". In William Smith (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 3. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. p. 453. Archived from the original on 2011-05-14. Retrieved 2010-02-14.
  5. ^ Strabo, 10.2.24

References

  • Apollodorus, The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. ISBN 0-674-99135-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
  • Homer, The Odyssey with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, PH.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1919. ISBN 978-0674995611. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
  • Strabo, The Geography of Strabo. Edition by H.L. Jones. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
  • Strabo, Geographica edited by A. Meineke. Leipzig: Teubner. 1877. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.

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