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Carmanor (of Crete)

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• Dowden, Ken, The Uses of Greek Mythology, Routledge, 2002. ISBN 9781134926282.

Mugar BL782 .D67 1992

pp. 97f. 129f.

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Ancient

Antoninus Liberalis [in folder]

Celoria, p. 100

40

Brtomartis

Cassiepa, daughter of Arabius, and Phoenix, son of Agenor, had a daughter Carme. Zeus made love to her and fathered Britomartis ...

Diodorus Siculus

5.76.3

Britomartis, who is also called Dictynna, the myths relate, was born at Caeno in Crete of Zeus and Carmê, the daughter of Eubulus who was the son of Demeter; she invented the nets (dictya) which are used in hunting, whence she has been called Dictynna, and she passed her time in the company of Artemis, this being the reason why some men think Dictynna and Artemis are one and the same goddess; and the Cretans have instituted sacrifices and built temples in honour of this goddess. 4 But those men who tell the tale that she has been named Dictynna because she fled into some fishermen's nets when she was pursued by Minos, who would have ravished her, have missed the truth; for it is not a probable story that the goddess should ever have got into so helpless a state that she would have required the aid that men can give, being as she is the daughter of the greatest one of the gods, nor is it right to ascribe such an impious deed to Minos, [p. 307] who tradition unanimously declares avowed just principles and strove to attain a manner of life which was approved by men.

Pausanias

2.7.7

Within the market-place is a sanctuary of Persuasion; this too has no image. The worship of Persuasion was established among them for the following reason. When Apollo and Artemis had killed Pytho they came to Aegialea to obtain purification. Dread coming upon them at the place now named Fear, they turned aside to Carmanor in Crete, and the people of Aegialea were smitten by a plague. When the seers bade them propitiate Apollo and Artemis,

2.30.3

In Aegina, as you go towards the mountain of Zeus, God of all the Greeks, you reach a sanctuary of Aphaea, in whose honor Pindar composed an ode for the Aeginetans. The Cretans say （the story of Aphaea is Cretan） that Carmanor, who purified Apollo alter he had killed Pytho, was the father of Eubulus, and that the daughter of Zeus and of Carme, the daughter of Eubulus, was Britomartis. She took delight, they say, in running and in the chase, and was very dear to Artemis. Fleeing from Minos, who had fallen in love with her, she threw herself into nets which had been cast （aphemena） for a draught of fishes. She was made a goddess by Artemis, and she is worshipped, not only by the Cretans, but also by the Aeginetans, who say that Britomartis shows herself in their island. Her surname among the Aeginetans is Aphaea; in Crete it is Dictynna （Goddess of Nets）.

10.7.2

The oldest contest and the one for which they first offered prizes was, according to tradition, the singing of a hymn to the god. The man who sang and won the prize was Chrysothemis of Crete, whose father Carmanor is said to have cleansed Apollo.

10.16.5

On the mountains of Crete there is still in my time a city called Elyrus. Now the citizens sent to Delphi a bronze goat, which is suckling the babies, Phylacides and Philander. The Elyrians say that these were children of Apollo by the nymph Acacallis, and that Apollo mated with Acacallis in the house of Carmanor in the city of Tarrha.

Virgil

Ciris

220

As soon as aged Carme,²⁸ daughter of Ogygian Phoenix,

²⁸ Carme, daughter of Phoenix, was loved by Jupiter. Their daughter, Britomartis, being wooed by Minos, fled into the sea. Rescued by Diana, she was worshipped in Crete under the name Dictynna.

Modern

Burkert [in folder]

p. 63

We are led back into the realm of myth with Karmanor of Crete, the priest who purified even Apollo after the god had slain the Delphic dragon. The name does not appear to be Greek.

p. 64

... from non-Greek proper names such as Karmanor ...

p. 186

9. Myth has even Apollo undergo purification after killing, be it with Karmanor in Crete (Paus. 2.30.3, 10.7.2; Scol. Pind. Pyth. hypothesis c)

Cook

p. 190

After the slaughter of Python Apollon was purified in Crete by Karmanor (Paus. 2.7.7, cp. 10.6.7, 10.16.5), the father of Euboulos whose daughter Karme became by Zeus the mother of Britomartis (Paus. 2.30.3, cp. Diod. 5.76, Ant. Lib. 40, Verg. Ciris 220 ff.). According to others, Apollon was purified in Crete by Chrysothemis (schol. Pind. Pyth. argum. 3). This son of Karmanor is said to have won the prize in the earliest hymnic contest at Dephoi (Paus. 10.7.2).

Dowden [in folder]

p. 70

Grimal

p. 89

s.v. Carmanor

A Cretan priest, the father of Euboulus and Chrysothemis. According to the Cretans, Carmanor welcomed Apollo and Artemis after the murder of Python and purified them, and he also allowed the intrigue between Apollo and Acacallis to take place in his house.

s.v. Carme

The mother of Britomartis who was born in Crete and fathered by Zeus. She is said to have been the daughter of Eubouleus, the son Caramanor. Other writers make her the daughter of Phoenix, one of the sons od Agenor and of Cassiopea (Table 3). She is said to have been taken to Megara as a prisoner in her old age and to have been made nurse to Scylla, the daughter of king Nisus.

Smith

s.v. Acacallis

（Ἀκακαλλίς), daughter of Minos, by whom, according to a Cretan tradition, Hermes begot Cydon; while according to a tradition of the Tegeatans, Cydon was a son of Tegeates, and immigrated to Crete from Tegea. (Paus. 8.53.2.) Apollo begot by her a son Miletus, whom, for fear of her father, Acacallis exposed in a forest, where wolves watched and suckled the child, until he was found by shepherds who brought him up. (Antonin. Lib. 30.) Other sons of her and Apollo are Amphithemis and Garamas. (Apollon. 4.1490, &c.) Apollodorus (3.1.2) calls this daughter of Minos Acalle (Ἀκάλλη), but does not mention Miletus as her son. Acacallis was in Crete a common name for a narcissus. (Athen. 15.681; Hesych. s. v.)

s.v. Carmanor

（Καρμάνωρ), a Cretan of Tarrha, father of Eubulus and Chrysothemis. He was said to have received and purified Apollo and Artemis, after they had slain the monster Python, and it was in the house of Carmanor that Apollo formed his connexion with the nymph Acacallis. (Paus. 2.7.7, 30.3, 10.16.2, 7.2; comp. Müller, Dor. 2.1.5, 8.11.)

s.v. Carme

（Κάρμη), a daughter of Eubulus, who became by Zeus the mother of Britomartis. (Paus. 2.30.2.) Antoninus Liberalis (40) describes her as a grand-daughter of Agenor, and daughter of Phoenix.

s.v. Chrysothemis

There are four mythical females of this name (Hyg. Fab. 170, Poet. Astr. 2.25; Diod. 5.22; Hom. Il. 9.287), and one male, a son of Carmanor, the priest of Apollo at Tarrha in Crete. He is said to have been a poet, and to have won the first victory in the Pythian games by a hymn on Apollo. (Paus. 10.7.2.)

s.v. Eubulus

Eu)/boulos), a son of Carmanor and father of Carme. (Paus. 2.30.3.) This name likewise occurs as a surname of several divinities who were regarded as the authors of good counsel, or as well-disposed; though when applied to Hades, it is, like Eubuleus, a mere euphemism. (Orph. Hymn. 17. 12, 29. 6, 55. 3.).