Kale
Kale is said to be the wife of Hephaestus. A purported summary of a lost poem by an otherwise unknown poet "Sostratus", while naming the three Charites, adds to Homer's Pasithea, and Hesiod's Euphrosyne, the name Kale, saying that it was she who was the wife of Hephaestus.
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When
- First attested
- 800 BCE
- Attested period
- -800 – 2020
- Historical notes
- Attested by Sostratus.
Relationships
- consort of
- Hephaestus
- co occurs with
- Teiresias, Charites, Peitho, Charis, Aglaea, Thalia, Auxo, Hegemone, Cleta, Phaenna, Aphrodite
- child of
- Zeus
- sibling of
- Pasithea, Euphrosyne
Mentioned by
Sources
Source passages
“A purported summary of a lost poem by an otherwise unknown poet "Sostratus", while naming the three Charites, adds to Homer's Pasithea, and Hesiod's Euphrosyne, the name Kale, saying that it was she who was the wife of Hephaestus.”
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“"Sostratus (Eustath. ad Hom. p. 1665) relates that Aphrodite and the three Charites, Pasithea, Kale and Euphrosyne, disputed about their beauty with one another, and when Teiresias awarded the prize to Kale he was changed by Aphrodite into an old woman, but Kale rewarded him with a beautiful head of hair and took him to Crete."”
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