Side (Wife of Orion)

Side, the first wife of Orion and mother of his daughters Metioche and Menippe She was cast by Hera into Hades because she rivaled herself to be more beautiful than the goddess.[ Modern scholars interpreted that the supposed marriage of Orion to Side ('pomegranate') is a mythical expression for the ripening of the fruit at the season when the constellation Orion is visible in the nightly sky.

Cited from Footnote 4 of Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 1.4.3; See Wilhelm Pape, Worterbuch der griechischen Eigennamen (Brunswick, 1884), ii.1383.
Antoninus Liberalis, Metamorphoses 25
Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 1.4.3

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