Autonoe
Greek · mortal · heroic age · Recorded classification
Mortal Theban princess, wife of Aristaeus (greek_aristaeus, whose prose already names 'Autonoë, daughter of Cadmus and Harmonia') and mother of Actaeon (greek_actaeon, authored in this batch). Her parents Cadmus and Harmonia and sisters Ino, Semele, Agave are named in the tradition but lack corpus entries, so they are described rather than wired.
Parentage
- parent: Harmonia
Children
Epithets
- Αὐτονόη Κάδμου θυγάτηρ — Autonoe daughter of CadmusApollod. 3.4.2 (primary)
Relations
- sibling: InoApollodorus, Bibliotheca (secondary)
- sibling: SemeleApollodorus, Bibliotheca (secondary)
- sibling: AgaveApollodorus, Bibliotheca (secondary)
- sibling: Polydorus of ThebesApollodorus, Bibliotheca (secondary)
- spouse: AristaeusWife of the demigod Aristaeus.Apollod. 3.4.4; Diod. 4.81.4 (primary)
- mother of: ActaeonApollod. 3.4.4 (primary)
Sources
- existence: Hesiod Theogony 975-978; Apollodorus 3.4.2-4; Diodorus 4.81.4; Euripides Bacchae (primary)
- marriage-to-Aristaeus-and-motherhood-of-Actaeon: Apollodorus 3.4.4; Diodorus 4.81.4 (primary)