Metaneira
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 4 anchored passages
deep-bosomed mother · well-girded Metaneira
in the texts
Theomnestus and Apollodorus Against Neaera
One of the seven girls raised and sold by Nicaretê; beloved of Lysias the sophist, who sought to have her initiated at Eleusis.
but he lodged the two, Metaneira and Nicaretê, with Philostratus of Colonus, who was a friend of his and was as yet unmarried.
So he asked Nicaretê to come to the mysteries bringing with her Metaneira that she might be initiated, and he promised that he would himself initiate her.
When she had reaped the profit of the youthful prime of each, she sold them, all seven, without omitting one—Anteia and Stratola and Aristocleia and Metaneira and Phila and Isthmias and this Neaera.
Hymn 2 to Demeter
Metaneira is the wife of Celeus and mother of Demophoon who receives disguised Demeter and interrupts her son's immortalization.
Then Metaneira filled a cup with sweet wine and offered it to her;
So the great queen Deo received it to observe the sacrament And of them all, well-girded Metaneira first began to speak:
Then awe and reverence and pale fear took hold of Metaneira, and she rose up from her couch before Demeter, and bade her be seated.