Admete ( grc, Ἀδμήτη means 'the unbroken, unwedded, untamed') or Admeta, was in

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, a

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an princess. She was the daughter of King

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and

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and sister to

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, Iphimedon,

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, ''

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(p. 219) The name of Admete/ Admeta was the female form of

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Mythology

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, as one of his

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, was obliged by her father to fetch for her the girdle of

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, which was worn by

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, queen of the

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. According to

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, Admete accompanied Heracles on this expedition. There was a tradition according to which Admete was originally a priestess of

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, but fled with the image of the goddess to

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. Pirates were engaged by the

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to fetch the image back, but the enterprise did not succeed, for the ship when laden with the image could not be made to move. The men then took the image back to the coast of Samos and sailed away. When the Samians found it, they tied it to a tree, but Admete purified it and restored it to the temple of Samos. In commemoration of this event, the Samians celebrated an annual festival called Tonea. This story seems to be an invention of the Argives, by which they intended to prove that the worship of Hera in their place was older than in Samos.

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Apollodorus Apollodorus (Ancient Greek, Greek: Ἀπολλόδωρος ''Apollodoros'') was a popular name in ancient Greece. It is the masculine gender of a noun compounded from Apollo, the deity, and doron, "gift"; that is, "Gift of Apollo." It may refer to: ...

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Athenaeus of Naucratis Athenaeus of Naucratis (; grc, Ἀθήναιος ὁ Nαυκρατίτης or Nαυκράτιος, ''Athēnaios Naukratitēs'' or ''Naukratios''; la, Athenaeus Naucratita) was a Greek rhetorician and grammarian, flourishing about the end of th ...

. ''The Deipnosophists or Banquet of the Learned.'' London. Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden. 1854.
Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
* Athenaeus of Naucratis. ''Deipnosophistae''. Kaibel. In Aedibus B.G. Teubneri. Lipsiae. 1887
Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library
* Bell, Robert E., ''Women of Classical Mythology: A Biographical Dictionary''. ABC-Clio. 1991. . Princesses in Greek mythology Greek mythological priestesses {{Greek-myth-stub Women in Greek mythology Characters in Greek mythology Mythology of Heracles