Herse

A daughter of Cecrops and sister of Agraulus, Pandrosus, and Erysichthon. She was the beloved of Hermes, and the mother of Cephalus. Respecting her story, see Agraulus.

At Athens sacrifices were offered to her, and the maidens who carried the vessels containing the libation (ἕρση, hersē) were called ἐρρηφόροι (errēphoroi).1

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References

Notes

  1. Pausanias. Description of Greece i, 27.4; Hesychius, and Moeris, s.v.

Sources

  • Ovid. Metamorphoses ii, 724.
  • Pausanias. Description of Greece i, 2.5.
  • Pseudo-Apollodorus. The Library iii, 14.2 ff.
  • 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.