Castalia

 ( Suicides In Greek Mythology ) 

Castalia (), in ancient Greek mythology and Roman mythology, is a young nymph, a daughter of the river-god Achelous who attracted the god Apollo and who is said to have flung herself into the sacred spring in Delphi when pursued by him. The spring took the name Castalian Spring afterwards.

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Family Castalia was the child of the river-god Achelous.

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Mythology The Castalia or Castalian Spring was the name of a spring near Delphi, sacred to the Muses, mentioned by many authors.The spring is mentioned in Herodotus, 8.39; Pindar, Pyth. 1.39; Virgil, Georgics 3.293; Horace, Odes 3.4.61; Statius, Thebaid 1.698 and elsewhere: see Liddell, Scott, Jones Greek Lexicon s.v. Κασταλία; Lewis and Short, Latin Dictionary, s.v. Castalia. According to old traditions, the Castalian Spring already existed by the time Apollo came to Delphi searching for Python.Homer, Hymn to Apollo According to some, the water was a gift to Castalia from the river Cephisus.

In his commentary on Statius's Thebaid, Latin poet Lactantius Placidus says that the virgin Castalia, trying to escape Apollo's unwanted amorous advances, threw herself into a fountain at Delphi, at the base of Mount Parnassus, or at Mount Helicon, which took her name thereafter.Smith, W. (1858). Classical Dictionary, s.v. Castalia. Castalia then became the sacred fountain of Poseidon..

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In culture She inspired the genius of poetry to those who drank her waters or listened to their quiet sound; the Sacred waters was also used to clean the Delphian temples. Apollo consecrated Castalia to the Muses ( Castaliae Musae).

The 20th-century Germany writer Hermann Hesse used Castalia as inspiration for the name of the futuristic fictional utopia in his 1943 masterpiece The Glass Bead Game. Castalia is home to an austere order of with a twofold mission: to run boarding schools for boys, and to nurture and play the Glass Bead Game.

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See also

• Castalian Spring
• Vox Day
• 4769 Castalia, an Earth-crossing asteroid
• 646 Kastalia, an asteroid

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Bibliography

• Edith Hamilton (1978). 9782501002646, Marabout Editions. ISBN 9782501002646

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External links

• CASTALIA from The Theoi Project

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