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<h1 id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading mw-first-heading"><span class="mw-page-title-main">Penthos</span></h1>
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<div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content mw-content-ltr" lang="de" dir="ltr"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="de" dir="ltr"><p><b>Penthos</b> (<span style="font-style:normal;font-weight:normal"><a href="Altgriechische_Sprache" title="Altgriechische Sprache">altgriechisch</a></span> <span lang="grc-Grek" class="Grek" style="font-style:normal">Πένθος</span> <span lang="de" style="font-style:normal;font-weight:normal">‚die Trauer‘</span>) ist in der <a href="Griechische_Mythologie" title="Griechische Mythologie">griechischen Mythologie</a> der Geist (<a href="Daimon" title="Daimon">Daimon</a>) der Klage, Verzweiflung und Trauer. Sein römisches Gegenstück wäre Luctus.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>Penthos’ Eltern sind – nach <a href="Hyginus_Mythographus" title="Hyginus Mythographus">Hyginus</a> – der <a href="Aither" title="Aither">Aether</a>, der obere Himmel, und <a href="Gaia_(Mythologie)" title="Gaia (Mythologie)">Gaia</a>, die Erde. Als seine Geschwister werden <a href="Aergia" title="Aergia">Aergia</a>, die Faulheit, und Poine, die Vergeltung, genannt.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Mythos">Mythos</h2></div>
<p>Nach der <a href="Titanomachie" title="Titanomachie">Titanomachie</a> verteilte <a href="Zeus" title="Zeus">Zeus</a> die „Aufgabenbereiche“ an die Götter. Weil Penthos allerdings die Auswahl verpasste, bekam er als Bestrafung die Bereiche zugeteilt, die kein Anderer haben wolle (Klage, Verzweiflung und Trauer).<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>Er begleitete die <a href="Erinnyen" title="Erinnyen">Furie</a> <a href="Tisiphone_(Mythologie)" class="mw-redirect" title="Tisiphone (Mythologie)">Tisiphone</a>, um <a href="Athamas" title="Athamas">Athamas</a> in den Wahnsinn zu treiben, und half <a href="Hephaistos" title="Hephaistos">Hephaistos</a> dabei, die <a href="Halskette_der_Harmonia" title="Halskette der Harmonia">Halskette der Harmonia</a> zu schmieden, welche demjenigen, der sie besitzt, Unglück bringt.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>Er wird in <a href="Homer" title="Homer">Homers</a> <i><a href="Ilias" title="Ilias">Ilias</a></i> als einer von <a href="Ares" title="Ares">Ares</a>’ Kriegsgefährten neben <a href="Lyssa_(Mythologie)" title="Lyssa (Mythologie)">Lyssa</a> (Wut) und Mania (Wahnsinn) erwähnt, zudem in <a href="Ovid" title="Ovid">Ovids</a> <i><a href="Metamorphosen_(Ovid)" title="Metamorphosen (Ovid)">Metamorphosen</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Literatur">Literatur</h2></div>
<ul><li><a href="Otto_H%C3%B6fer" title="Otto Höfer">Otto Höfer</a>: <i>Penthos</i>. In: <a href="Wilhelm_Heinrich_Roscher" title="Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher">Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher</a> (Hrsg.): <i><a href="Ausf%C3%BChrliches_Lexikon_der_griechischen_und_r%C3%B6mischen_Mythologie" title="Ausführliches Lexikon der griechischen und römischen Mythologie">Ausführliches Lexikon der griechischen und römischen Mythologie</a></i>. Band 3,2, Leipzig 1909, Sp. 1944 (<span class="-print"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.archive.org/details/ausfhrlichesle0302rosc/page/n147/mode/1up">Digitalisat</a></span>).</li></ul>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Einzelnachweise">Einzelnachweise</h2></div>
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<li id="cite_note-:0-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">↑ <sup><a href="#cite_ref-:0_1-0">a</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-:0_1-1">b</a></sup></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="Hyginus_Mythographus" title="Hyginus Mythographus">Hyginus</a>, <i><a href="Genealogiae" title="Genealogiae">Fabulae</a></i> Vorrede.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-2">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="Plutarch" title="Plutarch">Plutarch</a>, <i>Consolatio ad Apollonium</i> 19.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-3">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="Publius_Papinius_Statius" title="Publius Papinius Statius">Statius</a>, <i>Thebais</i> 2, 286–288.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-4">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="Ovid" title="Ovid">Ovid</a>, <i><a href="Metamorphosen_(Ovid)" title="Metamorphosen (Ovid)">Metamorphoses</a></i> 4, 484–485.</span>
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