Apemosyne

Role: daughter of Catreus · First appears: Apollodorus, Library 3.2

Life events

• Althaemenes left Crete with Apemosyne and established Cretinia in Rhodes.(Apollodorus, Library 3.2 · 📍 Rhodes)
  • With: Althaemenes
  • “he set out from Crete with his sister Apemosyne, and put in at a place in Rhodes , and having taken possession of it he called it Cretinia.”
• Hermes assaulted Apemosyne after causing her to slip on hides.(Apollodorus, Library 3.2)
  • With: Hermes
  • “he spread fresh hides on the path, on which, returning from the spring, she slipped and so was deflowered.”
• Althaemenes killed Apemosyne after dismissing her account of Hermes as a pretext.(Apollodorus, Library 3.2)
  • With: Althaemenes
  • “he, deeming the god a mere pretext, kicked her to death.”

Apollodorus, Library 3.2

• parent: Catreus “But Catreus, son of Minos, had three daughters, Aerope, Clymene, and Apemosyne, and a son, Althaemenes.”
• siblings with Aerope “But Catreus, son of Minos, had three daughters, Aerope, Clymene, and Apemosyne, and a son, Althaemenes.”
• siblings with Clymene “But Catreus, son of Minos, had three daughters, Aerope, Clymene, and Apemosyne, and a son, Althaemenes.”
• siblings with Althaemenes “Now Catreus hid the oracles, but Althaemenes heard of them, and fearing to be his father's murderer, he set out from Crete with his sister Apemosyne, and put in at a place in Rhodes , and having taken possession of it he called it Cretinia.”
• admirer: Hermes “For Hermes loved her, and as she fled from him and he could not catch her, because she excelled him in speed of foot, he spread fresh hides on the path, on which, returning from the spring, she slipped and so was deflowered.”
• with Hermes (Hermes deflowered Apemosyne.) “For Hermes loved her, and as she fled from him and he could not catch her, because she excelled him in speed of foot, he spread fresh hides on the path, on which, returning from the spring, she slipped and so was deflowered.”
• with Althaemenes (Althaemenes killed Apemosyne.) “She revealed to her brother what had happened, but he, deeming the god a mere pretext, kicked her to death.”

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Extracted from the original text of Greek Mythology. Made with Rho MD.