Autonoe
mythological figure · 3 works · 4 mentions · 5 anchored passages
in the texts
Bacchae
Daughter of Kadmos and aunt of Pentheus, named as a leader of one of the bands of maddened Theban Bacchae.
I saw three companies of dancing women, one of which Autonoe led, the second your mother Agave, and the third Ino.
Ino began to work on the other side, tearing his flesh, while Autonoe and the whole crowd of the Bacchae pressed on.
For I saw Autonoe, who once bore Actaeon to Aristaeus, and Ino with her, still mad in the thicket, wretched creatures.
Theogony
A daughter of Cadmus and Harmonia, wife of Aristaeus.
And Harmonia, the daughter of golden Aphrodite, bore to Cadmus Ino and Semele and fair-cheeked Agave and Autonoe whom long haired Aristaeus wedded, and Polydorus also in rich-crowned Thebes.
Odyssey
A maidservant of Penelope's household named as an attendant she requests.
nevertheless, tell Autonoe and Hippodameia that I want them.