Echemeia

Echemeia (ancient Greek Ἐχέμεια, Latin Ethemea, sometimes also Echemea) is a person of Greek mythology.

She is the wife of Merops, the king of the Meropians, and mother of Cos. When Echemeia refused to continue serving Artemis, Artemis wanted to kill her with an arrow. Before that happens, Persephone takes her to Hades. [1]

An unnamed daughter of Merops appears in Euripides' play Helena. This wicked Artemis through her beauty and was transformed by her as a punishment into a gold-horned hind. [2]
literature

Jakob Escher-Bürkli: Echemeia. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie of classical antiquity science (RE). Volume V, 2, Stuttgart 1905, column 1912 f. (Digitized 1, 2).

Remarks
Hyginus Mythographus De astronomia 2, 16; Etymologicum magnum 507, 55.
Euripides, Helena 381 f.

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