Erigone

Ērĭgŏne, ēs, f., = Ἠριγόνη.

• The daughter of Icarius, who hung herself through grief for her father's death, and was rewarded for it by being translated to the sky as the constellation Virgo, Hyg. Fab. 130; 254; Verg. G. 1, 33 Serv.; Ov. M. 6, 125.
• —Hence, Ērĭgŏnēĭus, a, um, adj.: Canis, i.e. Maera, the hound of Icarius, who was placed along with her in the sky, Ov. F. 5, 723; for which: Canis Erigones, Col. 10, 400.—
• II Daughter of Aegisthus and Clytemnestra, Hyg. Fab. 122; Dict. Cret. 6, 2, 4.—
• III Astraea, Mart. Cap. 2, § 174.

Ērigonē, ēs, f. (Ἠριγόνη), I) Tochter des Ikarus von Athen, die aus Schmerz über den Tod ihres Vaters sich erhängte und zum Lohne dafür als Gestirn Virgo mit dem Hunde ihres Vaters (Maera gen.) als Gestirn Canicula an den Himmel versetzt wurde (vgl. 1. Icarus), Verg. georg. 1, 33. Ov. met. 6, 125: Canis Erigones, Col. poët. 10, 400. – Dav. Ērigonēius, a, um, erigonëisch, canis, der Hundsstern, Ov. fast. 5, 723. – II) = Astraea, Mart. Cap. 2. § 174.

Ērĭgŏnē, (15) ēs, f. (Ἠριγόνη), Érigone [fille dʼIcare, changée en constellation (la Vierge)] : Virg. G. 1, 33 ; Ov. M. 6, 125 || fille dʼÉgisthe et de Clytemnestre : Hyg. Fab. 122 || -nēĭus, a, um, dʼÉrigone [fille dʼIcare] : Ov. F. 5, 723.

erigone, es. f.
神名。己宮。角宿。

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Eri'gone

(Ἠριγόνη.)

1. A daughter of Icarius, seduced by Bacchus, who came into her father's house. (Ov. Met. 6.125; Hyg. Fab. 130; comp. Icarius.)

Eri'gone

2. A daughter of Aegisthus and Clytaemnestra, and by Orestes the mother of Penthilus. (Paus. 2.18.5.) Hyginus (Hyg. Fab. 122), on the other hand, relates that Orestes wanted to kill her like her mother, but that Artemis removed her to Attica, and there made her her priestess. Others state, that Erigone put an end to herself when she heard that Orestes was acquitted by the Areiopagus. (Dict. Cret. 6.4.) A third Erigone is mentioned by Servius. (Ad Virg. Eclog. 4.6.) [L.S]

Erigŏné

(Ἠριγόνη). (1) The daughter of Icarius. Her father having been taught by Bacchus the culture of the grape, and having made wine, gave of it to some shepherds, who, thinking themselves poisoned by the draught, killed him. When they came to their senses, they buried him; and his daughter Erigoné, being guided to the spot by her father's faithful hound Maera, hanged herself through grief (Apollod.iii. 14. 7; Hyg. Fab. 130). Zeus translated the father and daughter, along with the faithful Maera, to the skies; Icarius became Boötes, and Erigoné, Virgo; while the hound was changed, according to Hyginus, into Procyon; but, according to the scholiast on Germanicus, into the Canis Maior, which is therefore styled by Ovid (Fast. iv. 939) Canis Icarius.

(2) The daughter of Aegisthus and Clytaemnestra, and mother of Penthilus by Orestes (Pausan. ii. 18, 5).

Erigone Erigone, daughter of Aegisthus and Clytaemnestra

• Paus. 2.18.6
• brings Orestes to trial at the Areopagus: Apollod. E.6.23
• married by Orestes: Apollod. E.6.27

Erigone(2), daughter of Icarius

• bewails her father and hangs herself: Apollod. 3.14.7