In
Greek mythology
Greek mythology is the body of myths originally told by the Ancient Greece, ancient Greeks, and a genre of ancient Greek folklore, today absorbed alongside Roman mythology into the broader designation of classical mythology. These stories conc ...
, Aenete (
Ancient Greek
Ancient Greek (, ; ) includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the classical antiquity, ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC. It is often roughly divided into the following periods: Mycenaean Greek (), Greek ...
: ) was the daughter of
Eusorus In Greek mythology, Eusorus (Ancient Greek: Εύσωρος) was the father of Acamas,Homer, ''Iliad'' 6.8 AeneteApollonius Rhodius, ''Argonautica'' 1.949 Orphic Argonautica,'' 502 ' and in some accounts, of Cyzicus.
Mythology
Eusorus only app ...
, and wife of
Aeneus, by whom she had a son,
Cyzicus
Cyzicus ( ; ; ) was an ancient Greek town in Mysia in Anatolia in the current Balıkesir Province of Turkey. It was located on the shoreward side of the present Kapıdağ Peninsula (the classical Arctonnesus), a tombolo which is said to have or ...
, the founder of the town of this name. In some traditions she is called Aenippe.
Mythology
Apollonius' ''Argonautica''
: "And about the isthmus and the plain the Doliones had their dwelling, and over them Cyzicus son of Aeneus was king, whom Aenete the daughter of goodly Eusorus bare."
[Apollonius of Rhodes]
1.950
'
''Orphic Argonautica''
:"Cyzicus, the son of Aeneus who ruled over all the Doliones, came up and took a place among the heroes. He had been born to a most noble woman, Aenete, daughter of Eusorus."
[''Orphic Argonautica']
502
'
Notes
References
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Apollonius Rhodius
Apollonius of Rhodes ( ''Apollṓnios Rhódios''; ; fl. first half of 3rd century BC) was an ancient Greek author, best known for the ''Argonautica'', an epic poem about Jason and the Argonauts and their quest for the Golden Fleece. The poem is ...
, ''Argonautica'' translated by Robert Cooper Seaton (1853–1915), R. C. Loeb Classical Library Volume 001. London, William Heinemann Ltd, 1912
Online version at the Topos Text Project.*Apollonius Rhodius, ''Argonautica''. George W. Mooney. London. Longmans, Green. 1912
Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library
*Bell, Robert E., ''Women of Classical Mythology: A Biographical Dictionary''.
ABC-Clio. 1991. .
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''The Orphic Argonautica'', translated by Jason Colavito. © Copyright 2011
Online version at the Topos Text Project.
Women in Greek mythology
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