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Erysichthon was the son of King Triopas [3] possibly by Hiscilla, daughter of Myrmidon and thus, brother of Iphimedeia [4] and Phorbas. [5]In some accounts, however, he was called instead the son of Myrmidon [6] possibly by Peisidice, daughter of Aeolus and Enarete, and thus, brother to Antiphus, Actor, [7] Dioplethes, [8] Eupolemeia [9] and possibly Hiscilla as well.
In Greek mythology, Limos (Ancient Greek: Λιμός, romanized: Līmós, lit. 'Famine, Hunger, Starvation') [1] is the personification of famine or hunger. Of uncertain sex, Limos was, according to Hesiod's Theogony, the offspring of Eris (Strife), with no father mentioned. [2]
Erysichthon was said to have died in Prasiae (modern Porto Rafti), on the east coast of Attica, as he was returning from the holy island of Delos with a statue of Eileithuia, goddess of childbirth. Of the three ancient wooden images of the goddess that could be seen at her temple at Athens, one was identified as the image that Erysichthon had ...
Demeter orders Famine to strike Erysichthon, Elisha Whittelsey Collection Another myth involving Demeter's rage resulting in famine is that of Erysichthon , king of Thessaly . [ 27 ] The myth tells of Erysichthon ordering all of the trees in one of Demeter's sacred groves to be cut down, as he wanted to build an extension of his palace and hold ...
When Erysichthon cut down a grove of trees sacred to Ceres, the goddess of grain, looked to her antithesis Fames to deliver her punishment: "Let pestilent Hunger torture his body!" In Ovid's account, Fames lives at the farthest edge of Scythia , a frozen, gloomy wasteland, high in the Caucasus Mountains , where little grows.
Erysichthon and his Mother: Erysichthon scorned the gods and found nothing sacred. Was cursed by Ceres with an insatiable hunger after cutting down a sacred tree. Erysichthon tries to sell his mother, who later turns back into a child by Poseidon's grace. Erysichthon eventually eats himself, though the audience doesn't see it firsthand.
Erysichthon: Ancient King of Thessaly who cut down a grove of trees sacred to Demeter. Her revenge was to give him insatiable hunger which eventually caused him to consume his own flesh. Seeing fasting souls in Purgatory on the terrace of the gluttonous, Dante is reminded of Erysichthon's story. Purg. XXIII, 25–27.
Erysichthon sells his daughter Mestra. An engraving from among Johann Wilhelm Baur's illustrations of Ovid's Metamorphoses. Poseidon can be seen in the lower-left background. In Greek mythology, Mestra (Ancient Greek: Μήστρα, Mēstra) [1] was a daughter of Erysichthon of Thessaly. [2] Antoninus Liberalis called her Hypermestra and ...