Hecaerge

A daughter of Boreas, and one of the Hyperborean maidens, who were believed to have introduced the worship of Artemis in Delos.

The name Hecaerge signifies hitting at a distance; and it is not improbable that the story of the Hyperborean maiden may have arisen out of an attribute of Artemis, who bore the surname of Hecaerge.1 Compare Hecaergus.

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References

Notes

  1. Antoninus Liberalis, 13.

Sources

  • Callimachus. Hymn to Delos, 292.
  • Herodotus. Histories iv, 35.
  • Pausanias. Description of Greece i, 43.4; v, 7.4.
  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.

This article incorporates text from Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1870) by William Smith, which is in the public domain.