Psamathe
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- This article is about the mythological figures. For the moon of Neptune, see Psamathe (moon). For the polychaete worm genus, see Psamathe (polychaete).
Psamathe (Greek: Ψάμαθη) was a Nereid in Greek mythology, i.e., one of the fifty daughters of Nereus and Doris. The goddess of sand beaches, Psamathe was the wife of Proteus[1] and the mother of Phocus by Aeacus.[2]
This was also the name of the mortal mother of Linus by Apollo. This second Psamathe was the daughter of Crotopus, king of Argos, who, fearing her father, gave her infant son Linus to shepherds to be raised; after reaching adulthood, he was torn apart by dogs, and Psamathe was killed by her father. Apollo avenged her murder by sending a child-killing plague to Argos.[3]
Some translations of Ovid have the name as Psamanthe.[4]
[edit] References
- ^ In Euripides' tragedy Helen, Psamathe is married to king Proteus of Egypt.
- ^ Ovid. Metamorphoses, XI, 398.
- ^ Conon, Narrationes, 19
- ^ Ovid Illustrated: The Renaissance Reception of Ovid in Image and Text.
