- Admete
Admete is a name attributed to two individuals in
Greek mythology :*Admete the
Oceanid , a companion ofPersephone . [Hesiod , "Theogony " 349.]Hyginus in the preface to his fables calls her Admeto, and a daughter ofPontus andThalassa .
*Admete (or Admeta), daughter ofEurystheus .Heracles , as one of his Twelve Labors, was obliged by her father to fetch for her the girdle ofAres , which was worn byHippolyte , queen of theAmazons . [Apollodorus , ii. 5. § 9.] According toJohn Tzetzes , [John Tzetzes , "ad Lycophr." 1327.] she accompanied Heracles on this expedition. There was a tradition according to which Admete was originally a priestess ofHera atArgos , but fled with the image of the goddess to Samos. [Athen. xv. p. 447.] Pirates were engaged by theArgives to fetch the image back, but the enterprise did not succeed, for the ship when laden with the image could not be made to move. The men then took the image back to the coast of Samos and sailed away. When the Samians found it, they tied it to a tree, but Admete purified it and restored it to the temple of Samos. In commemoration of this event, the Samians celebrated an annual festival called Tonea. This story seems to be an invention of the Argives, by which they intended to prove that the worship of Hera in their place was older than in Samos. [Citation
last = Schmitz
first = Leonhard
author-link =
contribution = Admete (1) and (2)
editor-last = Smith
editor-first = William
title =Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology
volume = 1
pages = 19
publisher =
place = Boston
year = 1867
contribution-url = http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0028.html ]References
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