#munitus

[galusandmalus]

reading Eustathios rn for the math part but that shit is like 500 pages so damn collection of my favorite Aethra moments outside of the obvious stuff and her part in the supplicant woman holy shit this part "for which reason he is about to speak. But when Helen was again abducted by Alexander, she willingly went with her, and even this Aethra persuaded Helen to follow Alexander" Raised Munitus, her grandson in troy "But Laodice, the daughter of Priam, fell in love with Acamas, slept with him and bore a son called Munitus. Fearing, she gave the baby to Aethra, the mother of Theseus, that is, the grandmother of Acamas, to raise him" -Tzetzes, Ad Lycophronem

Sometimes Clymene is her daughter

"Falling desperately in love with Helen, the most beautiful woman in Greece, he carried her off, along with much wealth, and also Aethra and Clymene, being Menelaus' relatives, attended on Helen.

"Meanwhile the Athenians welcomed Menestheus along with Aethra, the daughter of Pittheus, and her daughter Clymene. Demophoon and Acamas, however, remained outside the city" -Dictys Cretensis, Trojan War Chronicle

related to and important to Menelaus "with Aethra the relative of Menelaus from Pelops and Clytemnestra from the lineage of Europa"

"together with Aethra from the lineage of Pelops and Clytemnestra from the lineage of Europa" "King Menelaus the theft of Helene by Paris, and that he took along with her Aethra his and Clytemnestra’s relative. Menelaus on hearing this was flabbergasted. He was very sorry about Aethra, for she was esteemed by him as being very proper" -Malalas, Chronography 

worked with athena and built a temple "In obedience forsooth to a dream from Athena, Aethra crossed over into the island with libations for Sphaerus. After she had crossed, Poseidon is said to have had intercourse with her here. So for this reason Aethra set up here a temple of Athena Apaturia, and changed the name from Sphaeria to Sacred Island. She also established a custom for the Troezenian maidens of dedicating their girdles before wedlock to Athena Apaturia" -Pausanias, Description of Greece

was a queen? "Alexander, at the prompting of Venus, took Helen from his host Menelaus form Lacedemon to Troy, and married her. She took with her two handmaids, Aethra and Thisiadie, captives, but once queens, whom Castor and Pollux had assigned to her"-hyginus got a golden veil from amphitrite "but I too was borne by the daughter of rich Pittheus, who coupled with the sea-god Poseidon, and the violet-haired Nereids gave her a golden veil" -Bacchylides, Dithyrambs

[mostcuriousmythicist]

The Affair of Laodice (daughter of Priam) and Acamas (son of Theseus)

It was told of Laodice that, when Diomedes and Acamas came to ask for the restoration of Helen, she was seized with the strongest of desire to have to do with the latter, who was still in his first youth. For a time shame and modesty kept her back; but afterwards, overcome by the violence of her passion, she acquainted Philobia, the wife of Perseus, with the state of her affections, and implored her to come to her rescue before she perished utterly for love. Philobia was sorry for the girl’s plight, and asked Perseus to do what he could to help, suggesting that he should come to terms of hospitality and friendship with Acamas. He, both because he desired to be agreeable to his wife and because he pities Laodice, spared no pains to induce Acamas to come to Dardanus, where he was governor: and Laodice, still a virgin, also came, together with other Trojan women, as if to a festival. Perseus there made ready a most sumptuous banquet, and, when it was over, he put laodice to sleep by the side of Acamas, telling him that she as one of the royal concubines. Thus laodice accomplished her desire; and in due course of time a son, called Munitus, was born to Acamas by her. He was brought up by Aethra, and after the capture of Troy Acamas took him home with him; later he was killed by a bite of a snake while hunting in Olynthus in Thrace.

Parthenius of Nicaea, love Romances. 16

[effulgentpoet]

mythology aesthetics

ACAMAS & MUNITUS

In Greek mythology, Acamas was the son of Theseus and Phaedra. After his father lost the throne of Athens, Acamas grew up an exile in Euboea. He and Diomedes were sent to negotiate the return of Helen before the start of the Trojan War. During his stay at Troy he caught the eye of Priam's daughter Laodice, and she bore him a son, Munitus, who was given to Acamas' grandmother Aethra, then a slave to Helen. When Acamas returned, he took Munitus with him, but the child was later bitten by a snake and died. In the war, Acamas fought on the side of the Greeks and was counted among the men inside the Trojan Horse. After the war, he rescued Aethra from her long captivity in Troy, and, with his brother, would capture the Palladium. The dominant character trait of Acamas is his interest in faraway places.

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