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Perseus Encyclopedia
Poemander, (Poimandros). The father by Tanagra, daughter of Aeolus, of Ephippus and Leucippus. He was the reputed founder of the town of Tanagra, in Boeotia.
Daughter of Aeolus or of Asopus, wife of Poemander.
The grander of the two versions of the Triton legend relates that the women of Tanagra before the orgies of Dionysus went down to the sea to be purified, were attacked by the Triton as they were swimming, and prayed that Dionysus would come to their aid. The god, it is said, heard their cry and overcame the Triton in the fight. The other version is less grand but more credible. It says that the Triton would waylay and lift all the cattle that were driven to the sea. He used even to attack small vessels, until the people of Tanagra set out for him a bowl of wine. They say that, attracted by the smell, he came at once, drank the wine, flung himself on the shore and slept, and that a man of Tanagra struck him on the neck with an axe and chopped off his head. for this reason the image has no head. And because they caught him drunk, it is supposed that it was Dionysus who killed him.
Aethusa (Aithousa), a daughter of Poseidon and Alcyone, who was beloved by Apollo, and bore to him Eleuther. (Apollod. iii. 10.1; Paus. ix. 20 2).
Eunostus, (Eunostos). A hero of Tanagra in Boeotia. he was a son of Elinus, and
brought up by the nymph Eunoste. Ochne, the daughter of Colonus, fell in love
with him; but he avoided her, and when she thereupon accused him before her brothers
of improper conduct towards her, they slew him. Afterwards Ochne confessed that
she had falsely accused him, and threw herself down a rock. Eunostus had a sanctuary
at Tanagra in a sacred grove, which no woman was allowed to approach. (Plut. Quaest.
Gr. 40.)
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