Adite is presented in the sources as one of the fifty daughters of Danaus, king of Libya and later Argos. According to the narrative preserved in classical-derived reference material, Danaus's daughters were married to the fifty sons of Aegyptus; at Danaus's instruction the Danaïdes murdered their husbands on the wedding night. Adite is named specifically as the woman who killed her husband Menalces, a son of Aegyptus by Gorgo. Pieria is cited in one account as her mother, making Adite a sister to Actaea, Podarce, Dioxippe, Ocypete and Pylarge. Hypermnestra is noted in the wider tradition as the only Danaid who spared her husband.
The available sources provide no surviving descriptive material about Adite's physical appearance, clothing, age, or iconography. She is attested only by genealogical and narrative role (daughter of Danaus; killer of Menalces) and by her posthumous punishment; no literary or artistic descriptions of her individual appearance are recorded in the cited materials.
There are no accounts in the cited sources of divine powers, magical abilities, cult functions, or ongoing agency for Adite. The only attested actions are mortal and narrative: compliance with Danaus's order to kill her husband Menalces on the wedding night, and, after death, the assigned punitive labor in Tartarus—carrying water in a leaky jar or bowl to attempt to fill a bottomless vessel for eternity. No other capacities, interventions, or interactions with the living are documented in the provided materials.
Weaknesses
- otherNone recorded in sources
Wards
- otherNo warding practices recorded
Hypermnestra
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Danaus
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Community Record
- [1]Adite — Wikipedia. Wikipedia, 'Adite'wiki
- [2]Pieria (mythology) — Wikipedia. Wikipedia, 'Pieria (mythology)'wiki
- [3]Wikidata: Adite (Q15406622). Wikidata entry for Aditeother