Elate (mythology)
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In Greek mythology, Elate ({{langx|grc|Ἐλάτη|Elátē|fir}}) is a minor female figure, the sister of the two Aloadae giants who was transformed into a fir tree.{{cite web | first = M. Rosemary | last = Wright | title = A Dictionary of Classical Mythology: Summary of Transformations | website = mythandreligion.upatras.gr | url = http://mythandreligion.upatras.gr/english/m-r-wright-a-dictionary-of-classical-mythology/ | access-date = January 3, 2023 | publisher = University of Patras}}
Family
As sister to the Aloadae, Elate was probably the daughter of Iphimedeia by either Aloeus or Poseidon, the god of the sea.{{sfn|Bell|1991|loc=s.v. [https://archive.org/details/womenofclassical00bell/page/176/mode/2up?view=theater Elate]}}
Mythology
Elate was big in size, as big as her enormous brothers. When they died after trying to wage war against the heavens, she mourned them so much she was changed into a fir tree.Libanius, Progymnasmata [https://books.google.com/books?id=kRi-If9IAOYC&pg=PA39 38]{{sfn|Bell|1991|loc=s.v. [https://archive.org/details/womenofclassical00bell/page/176/mode/2up?view=theater Elate]}} She kept however her great size in her new life, hence the ancient Greek expression "a silver-fir tree big as heaven."{{sfn|Fontenrose|1981|page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=tD4lJxC95mEC&pg=PA116 116]}}Eustathius on Homer's Odyssey 5.239Bloch, René (Berne), [https://referenceworks-brillonline-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/entries/brill-s-new-pauly/elate-e328450?s.num=42 “Elate”], in: Brill’s New Pauly, Antiquity volumes edited by: Hubert Cancik and , Helmuth Schneider, English Edition by: Christine F. Salazar, Classical Tradition volumes edited by: Manfred Landfester, English Edition by: Francis G. Gentry. Consulted online on 09 January 2023. Her sister, Platanus, had a similar fate.{{sfn|Fontenrose|1981|page = [https://books.google.com/books?id=tD4lJxC95mEC&pg=PA116 116]}}
See also
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Bibliography
- {{cite book | last = Bell | first = Robert E. | title = Women of Classical Mythology: A Biographical Dictionary | publisher = ABC-Clio | date = 1991 | isbn = 9780874365818 | url = https://archive.org/details/womenofclassical00bell/mode/2up?view=theater | location = California, United States}}
- {{cite book | first = Joseph Eddy | last = Fontenrose | author-link = Joseph Fontenrose | title = Orion: The Myth of the Hunter and the Huntress | publisher = University of California Press | date = 1981 | isbn = 0-520-09632-0 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=tD4lJxC95mEC}}
- {{cite book | title = Libanius's Progymnasmata: Model Exercises in Greek Prose Composition and Rhetoric | author = Libanius | translator = Craig A. Gibson | date = 2008 | isbn = 978-1-58983-360-9 | publisher = Society of Biblical Literature | location = Atlanta | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=kRi-If9IAOYC}}
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