Antigone ( dr. Greek Ἀντιγόνη ) is a character in ancient Greek mythology, the daughter of the Trojan king Laomedont . She was proud of her beautiful hair, comparing it with the hair of Hera , and the goddess in anger turned this hair into a snake. However, the gods (or Hera herself) took pity on Antigone and, when she bathed, turned her into a stork , which therefore hates snakes. [one]
Virgil mentions the stork in " Georgik ": "a white bird will fly to us, hated by snakes " [2] . The match between Antigone and Hera on the fabric was woven by Athena , competing with Arachne [3] .
A similar story (about turning the hair of a beautiful woman into a snake) is known about Medusa Gorgon . Storks were revered in Thessaly [4] .
Notes
- ↑ Servius. Commentary on the "Georgians" Virgil II 320; The First Vatican Mythographer II 77
- ↑ Virgil. Georgics II 320
- ↑ Ovid. Metamorphoses VI 93-97
- ↑ Clement. Protreptic 39, 6
Sources
- Lexicon Rocher . T.1. St.374.