Psamata (Psamafeia, ancient Greek Ψαμάθη "sand") in ancient Greek mythology [1] is the Nereid [2] , the wife of Proteus and mother Eidotea . From Proteus, she gave birth to Theoklimene and Feonoy [3] .
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Beloved Eac , the king of Fr. Aegina , trying to avoid his embrace, turned into a seal [4] , but he caught up with her: Psamafa gave birth to his son Fock [5] (in Greek it means "seal").
Fock was killed by his half-brothers (sons of Eac) - Peleus and Telamon . For the murder of his son, Psamath sent a monstrous swamp wolf to Peleus herds. Thetis (also a Nereid) begged Psamathus to calm his anger, and the wolf, along with one of the bulls slaughtered by him, was turned into a marble block [6] .
- See Nonn. The Acts of Dionysus XLIII 357.
Perhaps identical to a certain Mycenaean deity qe-sa-ma-qa [7] .
In honor of her named one of the satellites of Neptune .
Notes
- ↑ Lubker F. Real Dictionary of Classical Antiquities . M., 2001. In 3 t. T.3. P.169
- ↑ Hesiod. Theogony 260; Pausanias. Description of Greece II 29, 9
- ↑ Euripides. Elena 6
- ↑ Pseudo-Apollodor. Mythological library I 2, 7; III 12, 6
- ↑ Hesiod. Theogony 1003-1004; Pindar Nemean songs V 13
- ↑ Ovid. Metamorphosis XI 365-406
- ↑ Subject-conceptual dictionary of the Greek language. Mycenaean period. L., 1986. P.143