Ctimene (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Ctimene (; , ) or Ctemene (Κτημένης Ktemene) may refer to two distinct women:

Ctimene or Ctemene,Tzetzes, Homeric Allegories Prologue 577 mother of Meges, one of the Achaean Leaders, by King Phyleus of Dulichium, the son of King Augeas of Elis.Eustathius ad Homer, Iliad p. 305.15; Tzetzes, Homeric Allegories Prologue 577; Grimal, p. 340 Otherwise, the mother of Meges was called either Ctesimache,Tzetzes, Homeric Allegories Prologue 577 Agnete,Tzetzes, Homeric Allegories Prologue 576 EustyocheHyginus, Fabulae 97 or Timandra.Eustathius ad Homer, Iliad p. 305.17; Scholia ad Euripides, Orestes 249 = Hesiod, Ehoiai fr. 176 (no. 46 in the Loeb edition, 1914) Ctemene might be the mother of Phyleus’ daughter Eurydameia who begot Euchenor and Cleitus by the seer Polyeidus.Pherecydes in Scholia ad Homer, Iliad 13.663 This Ctimene may be the same below. Ctimene, daughter of Laertes and Anticlea, and younger sister of Odysseus.Homer, Odyssey 15.363–364

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