Oenone
In Greek mythology, Oenone (in ancient Greek Οἰνώνη Oinônê, 'of wine') was the first wife of Paris.
She was a nymph (an oread or naiad) from Mount Ida in Phrygia, a mountain associated with the Mother Goddess Cybele. Her father was the river-god Cebrén, and she had learned the art of prophecy from Rhea. Her very name relates her to the natural but civilizing gift of wine.
The Trojan prince Paris fell in love with her when he was still a shepherd on the slopes of Mount Ida. They married and Oenone had a son, Coritus. He warned Paris not to sail in search of Helen, queen of Sparta, but he could not persuade him, and then told him to go to her when he was wounded, since no one else could heal him.
In revenge for Paris's betrayal he sent Coritus to guide the Greeks to Troy. Another version says that Corytus went to Troy to help his father, but he fell in love with Helen and Paris, having noticed her intentions, killed him. Some sources claim that Corytus was the son of Paris and Helena.
When he was mortally wounded by Philoctetes' arrow, Paris returned to Mount Ida and begged Oenone to cure him, but she, spiteful, refused and Paris died. Some say that he later regretted not having cured him and hanged himself when he found him dead, but others say that he committed suicide by throwing himself into the funeral pyre in Paris.
Other characters and places of the same name
- The mother of Melantio (No. 43.62).
- One of the assets that followed Dioniso in his campaign in India (No. 29.253).
- Enone It was also the name of an island that would later be called Egina in honor of the daughter of the god-god Asopo.
- Confident and rot of Fedra in the homonymous work of Racine
Sources
- Apoldore: Mythological Library3.12.6
- Strabon: Geography, 13.1.33
- Ovid: Heroids 5.3
- Partenio de Nicea: Sufferings of love, 4.1-7, 34
- Fifth of Esmirna: Posthomeric10,284, 10,308 and ss., 10,458 and ss.