Molione

In Greek mythology, Molione (Ancient Greek: Μολιόνης) or Moline (Μολίνη) was the Elean mother of the Molionides[1] (Eurytus and Cteatus) either by King Actor of Elis or by Poseidon.[2] Her sons were born with their bodies grown together.[3]

Mythology

When the Molionides were murdered in an ambush by the hero Heracles, Moline devoted herself in detecting the unknown slayer.[4] When she discovered him, the Eleans demanded satisfaction for the crime from the Argives, for at the time Heracles had his home at Tiryns. When the Argives refused them satisfaction, the Eleans as an alternative pressed the Corinthians entirely to exclude the Argive people from the Isthmian games. When they failed in this also, Moline is said to have laid curses on her countrymen, should they refuse to boycott the Isthmian festival. The curses of Moline are respected right down to the present day, and no athlete of Elis is wont to compete in the Isthmian games.[5]

Notes

Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 8.14.9 : "... sons of Actor who were called after their mother Moline"
Apollodorus, 2.7.2
Plutarch, De fraterno amore 1; Scholiast on Homer, Iliad 13.638, 639
Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 5.2.1

Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 5.2.2

References

Apollodorus, The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. ISBN 0-674-99135-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
Pausanias, Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. ISBN 0-674-99328-4.
Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.

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