Agamede
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Agamede (Ancient Greek: Ἀγαμήδη) was a name attributed to two separate women in classical Greek mythology and history:
- Agamede (c. 12th century BC) was, according to Homer, a Greek physician acquainted with the healing powers of all the plants that grow upon the earth.[1] She was born in Elis, the eldest daughter of Augeas, King of the Epeans,[2] and was married to Mulius, the first man killed in battle by Nestor during a war between Elis and Pylos.[3] Hyginus makes her the mother of Belus, Actor, and Dictys, by Poseidon.[4] She was called Perimede by both Propertius and Theocritus.[5][6] By the Hellenistic period (c. 4th to 1st centuries BC), Agamede had become a sorceress-figure, much like Circe or Medea.[7]
- Agamede was a daughter of Macaria, from whom Agamede, a place in Lesbos, was believed to have derived its name.[3][8] The town had already disappeared in Pliny's day.[9][10]
[edit] References
- ^ Homer. Iliad, xi. 739.
- ^ Ogilvie, Marilyn; Joy Harvey (2000). The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: Pioneering Lives from Ancient Times to Mid-20th Century. Routledge, 12. ISBN 0-415-92040-X.
- ^ a b Schmitz, Leonhard (1870), “Agamede (1) and (2)”, in Smith, William, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. 1, Boston, pp. 57
- ^ Hyginus, Fabulae 157
- ^ Propertius. Elegies, 2.4.
- ^ Theocritus. Idylls, 2.16.
- ^ Dickie, Matthew (2004). Magic and Magicians in the Greco-Roman World. Routledge, 23. ISBN 0-415-31129-2.
- ^ Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Ἀγαμήδη.
- ^ Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia V. xxix
- ^ Cramer, John Anthony (1832). A Geographical and Historical Description of Asia Minor. The University Press, 163.
[edit] Sources
- This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology by William Smith (1870).