Britomartis
Also known as: Aphæa / Dictynna · Family: Cretan · Role: goddess · First appears: Book 2 · Chapter 30
In Book 2, Chapter 30, Britomartis is described as the daughter of Zeus and Carme. Fleeing from Minos, who was enamoured of her, she threw herself into fishing nets; Artemis then made her a goddess. The chapter also mentions the temple of Aphæa and an ode about her by Pindar.
Relationship record
Life events
- Artemis transformed Britomartis into a goddess after her escape from Minos.(Book 2 · Chapter 30)
Book 2 · Chapter 30
- parent: Zeus “Britomartis was the daughter of Zeus by Carme the daughter of Eubulus”
- parent: Carme “Britomartis was the daughter of Zeus by Carme the daughter of Eubulus”
- admirer: Minos “fleeing from Minos, who was enamoured of her”
- with Artemis (interaction) “Artemis made her a goddess”
- with Pindar (Aphæa is Britomartis.) “the temple of Aphæa, about whom Pindar wrote an ode for the Æginetans.”
Book 3 · Chapter 14
- with Artemis (The passage presents Britomartis as the Cretan name for Artemis.) “they also call her Limnæa, though she is not called Artemis but Britomartis by the Cretans”
⭐ Constellation map → · 📖 Read the original → · 🗂 Character index → · 🕰 Chronicle → · 📍 Places →
Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.