Maera

"Sparkling." The daughter of Proetus, and a companion of the goddess Artemis. She was killed by Artemis after she had became by Zeus the mother of Locrus; others say that she died as virgin. Her shade appeared to Odysseus.

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Iconography

Maera was represented by Polygnotus in the Lesche at Delphi.1

References

Notes

  1. Pausanias. Description of Greece x, 30.2.

Sources

  • Aken, Dr. A.R.A. van. (1961). Elseviers Mythologische Encyclopedie. Amsterdam: Elsevier.
  • Bartelink, Dr. G.J.M. (1988). Prisma van de mythologie. Utrecht: Het Spectrum.
  • Eustathius on Homer, p. 1688.
  • Homer. Odyssey xii, 325.