In Greek mythology , Erysichthon ( / ˌ ɛ r ɪ ˈ s ɪ k θ ɒ n / ; Ancient Greek : Ἐρυσίχθων ὁ Θεσσαλός means "earth-tearer"), also anglicised as Erisichthon , was a king of Thessaly . He was sometimes called Aethon .
23-718: For the asteroid, see 308 Polyxo . Greek deities series Primordial deities Titans and Olympians Chthonic deities Personified concepts Water deities Amphitrite Ceto Glaucus Nereus Oceanus Phorcys Pontus Poseidon Potamoi Proteus Tethys Thetis Triton Water nymphs Crinaeae Eleionomae Hyades Limnades Naiads Nereids Oceanids Pegaeae Pegasides Potamides v t e Polyxo ( / p ə ˈ l ɪ k s oʊ / ; Ancient Greek : Πολυξώ Poluxṓ )
46-459: A period of 4.56 yr. The orbital plane is tilted at an angle of 4.36° to the plane of the ecliptic . 308 Polyxo is classified as a rare T-type asteroid , with a spectrum that bears some similarity to the Tagish Lake meteorite . A spectral feature at a wavelength of 3.0 μm suggests aqueous alteration of some surface materials. Photometric measurements reported in 1983 give
69-582: A rotation period of 12.03 hours and a brightness variation of 0.20 in magnitude . The adaptive optics instrument at the W. M. Keck Observatory shows an oblate object with a diameter of 130 km. The size ratio between the major and minor axes is 1.26 ± 0.11. Light curves for this object suggests it has a very irregular shape. Stellar occultation events were observed for this asteroid during 2000 and 2004. The resulting chords provided cross-section diameter estimates of 144.4 and 117.1 km, respectively. Erysichthon of Thessaly Erysichthon
92-515: A boar during hunt. The truth was that Erysichthon was dealing with the insatiable hunger sent upon him by the angry Demeter . Polyxo, a Lemnian , nurse of Hypsipyle and a seeress. She advised that the Lemnian women conceive children with the Argonauts , as all the men on the island had previously been killed. Polyxo , a native of Argos , who married Tlepolemus . She received Helen after
115-403: A single woman, Europe , also daughter of Nilus. In some accounts, he married Melia , daughter of his uncle Agenor , king of Tyre . Polyxo, mother of Antiope and possibly Nycteis by Nycteus . Polyxo, mother of Actorion . She came to invite Triopas and Erysichthon to her son's wedding, but Erysichthon's mother had to answer that her own son was not coming, as he had been wounded by
138-452: Is his father's name in other versions), wrote that Erysichthon tore down a temple of Demeter wishing to build a roof for his house. She then sent hunger to him as with all other versions, that no amount of food could satisfy. Near the end of his life a snake was sent to plague him, and afterwards was put among the stars (the constellation Ophiuchus ) by Demeter herself, as was the snake, to continue to inflict its punishment on Erysichthon. On
161-889: Is the name of several figures in Greek mythology : Polyxo, one of the 3,000 Oceanids , water-nymph daughters of the Titans Oceanus and his sister-wife Tethys . Polyxo, one of the Hyades . Polyxo, a Naiad of the river Nile , presumably one of the daughters of the river-god Nilus . She was one of the wives of King Danaus of Libya and bore him twelve daughters: Autonoe , Theano , Electra , Cleopatra , Eurydice , Glaucippe , Anthelea , Cleodora , Euippe , Erato , Stygne , and Bryce . They married twelve sons of King Aegyptus of Egypt and Caliadne , Polyxo's sister, and murdered them on their wedding night. According to Hippostratus , Danaus had all of his progeny by
184-686: The Pergamon Altar , which depicts the battle of the gods against the Giants (also known as the Gigantomachy ), surviving remains depict what seems to have been Demeter fighting a Giant labelled "Erysichthon," like the Thessalian king. Palaephatus , who was trying to rationalize the Greek myths in his On Unbelievable Tales ( Ancient Greek : Περὶ ἀπίστων ἱστοριῶν ), wrote that Erysichthon
207-588: The Argonautica Mythology of Argos, Peloponnese Theban mythology Thessalian mythology Hidden category: All set index articles 308 Polyxo 308 Polyxo is a main-belt asteroid that was discovered by A. Borrelly on 31 March 1891, in Marseilles . It is orbiting the Sun at a distance of 2.75 AU with a low orbital eccentricity (ovalness) of 0.04 and
230-797: The Loeb Classical Library, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1940. Online version at the Topos Text Project. Nonnus of Panopolis, Dionysiaca. 3 Vols. W.H.D. Rouse. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1940–1942. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library . Pausanias , Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. ISBN 0-674-99328-4 . Online version at
253-521: The Perseus Digital Library Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols . Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library . Tzetzes, John , Book of Histories, Book VII-VIII translated by Vasiliki Dogani from the original Greek of T. Kiessling's edition of 1826. Online version at theio.com [REDACTED] [REDACTED] This article includes a list of Greek mythological figures with
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299-766: The Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website . Apollonius Rhodius , 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 . Callimachus , Callimachus and Lycophron with an English translation by A. W. Mair ; Aratus, with an English translation by G. R. Mair , London: W. Heinemann, New York: G. P. Putnam 1921. Internet Archive Callimachus, Works . A.W. Mair. London: William Heinemann; New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1921. Greek text available at
322-473: The Topos Text Project. Gaius Valerius Flaccus , Argonautica translated by Mozley, J H. Loeb Classical Library Volume 286. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1928. Online version at theio.com. Gaius Valerius Flaccus, Argonauticon. Otto Kramer. Leipzig. Teubner. 1913. Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library. Nonnus of Panopolis , Dionysiaca translated by William Henry Denham Rouse (1863–1950), from
345-464: The end, he becomes a beggar living off the crumbs thrown at him by those passing by. Erysichthon once ordered all trees in the sacred grove of Ceres (the Roman equivalent of Demeter) to be cut down. One huge oak was covered with votive wreaths, a symbol of every prayer Ceres had granted, and so the men refused to cut it down. Erysichthon grabbed an axe and cut it down himself, killing a dryad nymph in
368-1137: The latter had been driven out of Sparta , but when Helen was bathing, several handmaidens sent by Polyxo, seized her and hanged her from a tree. Polyxo, a Maenad in the retinue of Dionysus who attempted to kill Lycurgus of Thrace . Polyxo (or Polyzo), a sister of Meleager . Notes [ edit ] ^ Hyginus , Fabulae Preface ^ Hyginus, De Astronomica 2.21 ^ Apollodorus , 2.1.5 ^ Tzetzes , Chiliades 7.37 p. 370-371 ^ Scholia on Apollonius Rhodius , Notes on Book 3.1689 ^ Apollodorus, 3.10.1 ^ Callimachus , Hymn to Demeter 77 ff. ^ Apollonius Rhodius, 1.668; Hyginus, Fabulae 15; Valerius Flaccus , 2.315 ff ^ Pausanias , 3.19.9 – 10 ^ Nonnus , 21.69 ^ Scholia on Homer , Iliad 9.584 References [ edit ] 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
391-434: The process. The nymph's dying words were a curse on Erysichthon. Ceres responded to the nymph's curse and punished him by entreating Fames , the spirit of unrelenting and insatiable hunger, to place herself in his stomach. Food acted like fuel on a fire: The more he ate, the hungrier he got. Erysichthon sold all his possessions to buy food, but was still hungry. At last, he sold his own daughter Mestra into slavery. The latter
414-539: The same or similar names. If an internal link for a specific Greek mythology article referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended Greek mythology article, if one exists. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Polyxo&oldid=1247209962 " Categories : Set index articles on Greek mythology Oceanids Children of Atlas Children of Nilus Naiads Maenads Companions of Dionysus Queens in Greek mythology Characters in
437-538: The shapeshifting lover of Poseidon . Erysichthon once took twenty men with him to the sacred grove of Demeter , where he cut down a black poplar tree where tree nymphs gathered around to dance; the tree groaned as he wounded it. Demeter, feeling the tree's discomfort at once, flew down to the grove taking a mortal woman's form, where she advised Erysichthon against cutting down the tree, warning him of Demeter's wrath. Erysichthon then rudely told her to leave, threatening to strike her down with his axe and saying he needed
460-487: The tree to build an extension for his house where he could hold feasts. Demeter then resumed her divine form and promised revenge. She sent insatiable hunger to him, and no matter how much he ate and drank, he could never satisfy his hunger or his thirst (inflicted on him by Dionysus , who was just as angry as Demeter was at him). Even his parents refused to visit him, and he ended up wasting all his wealth for food. He also sold all of his belongings to gain money to buy food. In
483-515: Was a rich Thessalian man who became poor. He had a beautiful daughter, Mestra. Men who wanted to marry her gave horses, cows, sheep or whatever Mestra wanted. The Thessalians seeing the livelihood of Erysichthon piling up said " from Mestra came horse and cow and other things " (ἐγένετο ἐκ Μήστρας αὐτῷ καὶ ἵππος καὶ βοῦς καὶ τἄλλα), and this is how the myth developed. Müller thinks that the traditions concerning Triopas and Erysichthon (from έρευείρη, gobigo ) belong to an agricultural religion, which, at
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#1732792005259506-412: Was freed from slavery by her former lover Poseidon, who gave her the gift of shape-shifting into any creature at will to escape her bonds. Erysichthon used her shape-shifting ability to sell her numerous times to make money to feed himself, but no amount of food was enough. Eventually, Erysichthon ate himself in hunger. Nothing of him remained the following morning. Hyginus , calling him Triopas (which
529-408: Was the son of King Triopas possibly by Hiscilla , daughter of Myrmidon and thus, brother of Iphimedeia and Phorbas . In some accounts, however, he was called instead the son of Myrmidon possibly by Peisidice , daughter of Aeolus and Enarete , and thus, brother to Antiphus , Actor , Dioplethes , Eupolemeia and possibly Hiscilla as well. Erysichthon was the father of Mestra ,
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