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{{Short description|In Greek mythology, a Mycenaean princess}}
{{Other uses|Admete (mythology)|Admete (gastropod)}}
{{distinguish|text=[[Admetus]], king of Pherae}}
'''Admete''' ({{langx|grc|Ἀδμήτη}} means 'the unbroken, unwedded, untamed') or '''Admeta,''' was in [[Greek mythology]], a [[Mycenae]]an princess. She was the daughter of King [[Eurystheus]] and [[Antimache (mythology)|Antimache]]<ref>{{Cite book|last=Bell|first=Robert E.|title=Women of Classical Mythology: A Biographical Dictionary|publisher=ABC-CLIO|year=1991|isbn=9780874365818|pages=4}}</ref><ref name=":2">[[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+2.5.9&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:boo=0:chapter=0&highlight=Admete 2.5.9]</ref> and sister to [[Alexander (mythology)|Alexander]], [[Iphimedon]], [[Eurybius]], [[Mentor (mythological figures)|Mentor]], [[Perimedes]]<ref name=":0">Apollodorus, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+2.8.1&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:boo=0:chapter=0&highlight=sons 2.8.1]</ref> and possibly, [[Eurypylus]].<ref name=":1">[[Athenaeus]], [https://topostext.org/work/218#4.158 4.158] (p. 219)</ref> The name of Admete/ Admeta was the female form of [[Admetus]].

== Mythology ==
[[Heracles]], as one of his [[Labours of Hercules|Twelve Labors]], was obliged by her father to fetch for her the girdle of [[Ares]], which was worn by [[Hippolyte]], queen of the [[Amazons]].<ref name=":2" /> According to [[John Tzetzes]],<ref>[[John Tzetzes|Tzetzes]] ad [[Lycophron]], [https://topostext.org/work/860#1327 1327]</ref>{{AI-generated source|date=November 2024}} Admete accompanied Heracles on this expedition.

There was a tradition according to which Admete was originally a priestess of [[Hera]] at [[Argos, Peloponnese|Argos]], but fled with the image of the goddess to [[Samos]].<ref>Athenaeus, [https://topostext.org/work/218#15.12 15 p. 447]</ref> Pirates were engaged by the [[Argives]] to fetch the image back, but the enterprise did not succeed, for the ship when laden with the image could not be made to move. The men then took the image back to the coast of Samos and sailed away. When the Samians found it, they tied it to a tree, but Admete purified it and restored it to the temple of Samos. In commemoration of this event, the Samians celebrated an annual festival called Tonea. This story seems to be an invention of the Argives, by which they intended to prove that the worship of Hera in their place was older than in Samos.<ref>{{Citation  | last = Schmitz  | first = Leonhard  | contribution = Admete (1) and (2)  | editor-last = Smith  | editor-first = William  | title = [[Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology]]  | volume = 1  | pages = 19  | place = Boston  | year = 1867  | contribution-url = http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0028.html  | access-date = 2007-10-14  | archive-date = 2009-07-01  | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090701094156/http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0028.html  | url-status = dead  }}</ref>

== Notes ==
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== References ==

* [[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], ''The Library'' with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. ISBN 0-674-99135-4. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0022 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.] [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0021 Greek text available from the same website].
*[[Athenaeus|Athenaeus of Naucratis]]. ''The Deipnosophists or Banquet of the Learned.'' London. Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden. 1854.  [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:2013.01.0003 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library].
* Athenaeus of Naucratis. ''Deipnosophistae''. Kaibel. In Aedibus B.G. Teubneri. Lipsiae. 1887. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:2013.01.0001 Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library].
* Bell, Robert E., ''Women of Classical Mythology: A Biographical Dictionary''. [[ABC-Clio]]. 1991. {{ISBN|9780874365818|0874365813}}.
* [[Scholia]] to [[Lycophron|Lycophron's]] ''Alexandra'', marginal notes by Isaak and Ioannis Tzetzes and others from the Greek edition of Eduard Scheer (Weidmann 1881). [https://topostext.org/work/860 Online version at the Topos Text Project.]. [[iarchive:lycophronisalexa02lycouoft/page/n5/mode/2up|Greek text available on Archive.org]]
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