In Greek mythology, Enarete (, Ancient Greek: ), or Aenarete ( Ainarete), was a queen of Aeolia (i.e. Thessaly) and ancestor of the Aeolians.
Biography Enarete was the daughter of Deimachus and wife of King Aeolus of Thessaly, son of the Greek progenitor Hellen.Enarete is the form found in the manuscripts of Bibliotheca 1.7.1, which takes to be a misspelling of Aenarete, the form written in the scholia to Plato, Minos 315c, since Enarete cannot stand in a hexameter line and the Bibliotheca's primary source at this point is the epic Hesiodic Catalogue of Women. At scholia to Pindar, Pythian Odes 4.252 yet another form—Enarea ( or )—is found. By the latter, she became the mother of his children including Cretheus, Sisyphus, Athamas, Salmoneus, Deion, Magnes, Perieres, Canace, Alcyone, Peisidice, Calyce and Perimede.Apollodorus, 1.7.3
Enarete may be similar to Eurydice who bore Salmoneus, Sisyphus and Cretheus to Aeolus.Euripides, Melanippe Wise test. i (Collard and Cropp, pp. 572, 573).
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