Side, one of the
Danaïdes, condemned to
Tartarus for murdering her husband. From her, a town in
Laconia was believed to derived its name from.[4]
Side, the first wife of
Orion and possible mother of his daughters
Metioche and
Menippe.[5] She was cast by
Hera into
Hades because she rivaled the goddess in beauty.[1] Modern scholars interpret the supposed marriage of Orion to Side ('pomegranate') as a mythical expression for the ripening of the fruit in the season when the constellation Orion is visible in the night sky.[1] She might have been the mother of Orion's daughters
Menippe and Metioche.
Side, a mortal woman who was chased down by her father
Ictinus, intending to rape her. Side killed herself on her mother's grave, and the gods turned her blood into a pomegranate tree. Her father was changed into a kite bird that never rested on pomegranate trees.[6]
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