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In Greek mythology, the Oenotropae (, "the women who change (into) wine") or Oenotrophae (, the "Winegrowers") were the three daughters of Anius.〔Tripp, Edward. ''The Meridian Handbook of Classical Mythology.'' Meridian, 1970, p. 52.〕 The Oenotropae included: Spermo (, "seed"), goddess of grain; Oeno or Oino (, "wine"), goddess of wine; and Elais (, "seed"), goddess of oil.〔〔Tzetzes on Lycophron, 570〕 According to the ''Bibliotheca'', their great-grandfather was Dionysus, and he gave them the power to change water into wine, grass into wheat, and berries into olives. For this reason no one around them ever had to starve.〔Pseudo-Apollodorus, ''Bibliotheca'', Epitome of Book IV, 3. 10〕 According to other sources, however, the daughters were devotees of Dionysus, and the god rewarded them with the extraordinary ability to produce oil, corn, and wine from the ground or merely by touch.〔 When the Greek fleet set out to make war in Troy, it was the Oenotropae who stocked their ships, and Agamemnon was so impressed with this that he abducted them in order to feed the Greek army. The daughters escaped, but their brother betrayed them again to the Greeks.〔 As they were about to be bound, however, Dionysus saved them by turning them into white doves.〔〔Ovid, ''Metamorphoses'', 13. 640〕〔Servius' commentary on Virgil, ''Aeneid'', 3. 80〕 ==See also== *Dionysus 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Oenotropae」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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