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.
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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.