Evadne

The daughter of Iphis. She was the wife of Capaneus and upon his death — he was killed by thunderbolt thrown by Zeus — she threw herself on his funeral pyre.

The act is rather doubtful since the bodies of those who died by lightning were not burned but buried where they fell.

References

Sources

  • Euripides. Suppliants, 985.
  • Hyginus. Fabulae, 256.
  • Pseudo-Apollodorus. The Library iii, 7.1.
  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.