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Mestra
In Greek mythology, Mestra (, ''Mēstra'')〔She is also occasionally referred to as Mnestra in modern sources, though the form is not anciently attested; cf. Clytemnestra, whose name does appear with and without the ''n'' in ancient authors. The pseudo-Apollodoran ''Bibliotheca'' (2.1.5) uses the form Mnestra for one of Danaus' daughters who marries and then murders Aegius, son of Aegyptus.〕 was a daughter of Erysichthon of Thessaly.〔Ovid, ''Metamorphoses'' 8.739; cf. ''Catalogue of Women'' fr. 43a.〕 She had the ability to change her shape at will, a gift of her lover Poseidon according to Ovid.〔Ovid, ''Met''. 8.850–54.〕
Her father exploited this gift in order to sate the insatiable hunger with which he had been cursed by Demeter for violating a grove sacred to the goddess.〔Ovid, ''Met''. 8.741–842; cf. Callimachus, ''Hymn to Demeter'' 24–69.〕 Erysichthon would repeatedly sell Mestra to suitors for the bride prices they would pay, only to have the girl return home to her father in the form of various animals.〔Hesiod, ''Cat''. fr. 43a; Ovid, ''Met''. 8.871–74.; Tzetzes on Lycophron, 1395〕
According to Ovid, Mestra married the thief Autolycus,〔Ovid, ''Met''. 8. 739〕 though other sources named his wife differently.
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