Lampetia
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In Greek mythology, Lampetia ( or ) also spelled Lampetie, was a nymph or goddess and a daughter of the sun god, Helios. She and her sister Phaethusa watched over their father's prized herds of cattle and sheep on the island of Thrinacia (Sicily). Lampetia wielded an orichalcum staff and herded the cattle.
Key facts
- Deity.type
- Greek
- Deity.deity_of
- Shepherdess of the Oxen of the Sun
- Deity.abode
- Thrinacia (Sicily)
- Deity.image
- Odysseus' men eat the sacred oxen of the sun as his daughter informs him engraving.jpg
- Deity.caption
- Odysseus' men slay and eat the sacred cattle while one of Helios' daughters, Lampetia or Phaethusa, inform their father
- Deity.father
- Helios
- Deity.mother
- Neaera or Clymene
- Deity.siblings
- Phaethusa, Merope, Helie, Aegle, Phoebe, Aetherie, and Dioxippe
- Deity.children
- Machaon, Podaleirius, Iaso, Panacea, and Aegle
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In Greek mythology, Lampetia ( or ) also spelled Lampetie, was a nymph or goddess and a daughter of the sun god, Helios. She and her sister Phaethusa watched over their father's prized herds of cattle and sheep on the island of Thrinacia (Sicily). Lampetia wielded an orichalcum staff and herded the cattle.
== Family == Lampetia is most commonly described as a daughter of Helios and Neaera, a minor goddess or nymph. In this telling, she had one younger sister: Phaethusa, but had many half-siblings through her father.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lampetia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.