Creusa
- A daughter of king Creon, of Corinth, married to Jason, and on that account put to death by Medea by means of a charmed offering (a garment, acc. to Hor. Epod. 5, 65; a garment and a golden chain, acc. to Sen. Med. 571 sq.; a crown, acc. to Ov. Ib. 601; Plin. 2, 105, 109, § 235), Hyg. Fab. 25; Sen. Med. 496; 509 al.—
- II A daughter of Priam, and wife of Aeneas, Verg. A. 2, 738.—
- III A town, with a harbor, in Boeotia, Liv. 36, 21, 5; 42, 56, 5.—Also called Creūsis, acc. to the Gr. Κρεῦσις, Mel. 2, 3, 10.
- 1. echtgenote v. Aeneas, dochter v. Priamus;
- 2. dochter v. koning Creon v. Corinthe, echtgenote v. Jason, ook Glauce genoemd;
- 3. havenstad in Boeotië.
CREU´SAor CREU´SIS(Κρέουσα, Κρεουσία, Strab.; Creusa, Liv.; Κρεῦσις, Xen., Paus., Steph. B.: Eth. Κρεύσιος), a town of Boeotia, at the head of a small bay in the Corinthian gulf, described by ancient writers as the port of Thespiae. (Strab. ix. pp. 405, 409; Paus. 9.32.1; Creusa, Thespiensium emporium, in intimo sinu Corinthiaco retractum,Liv. 36.21.) The navigation from Peloponnesus to Creusis is described by Pausanias (l. c.) as insecure, on account of the many headlands which it was necessary to double, and of the violent gusts of wind rushing down from the mountains. Creusis was on the borders of Megaris. One of the highest points of Mt. Cithaeron projects into the sea between Creusis and Aegosthenae, the frontier town in Megaris, leaving no passage along the shore except a narrow path on the side of the mountain. In confirmation of Pausanias, Leake remarks that this termination of Mt. Cithaeron, as well as all the adjoining part of the Alcyonic sea, is subject to sudden gusts of wind, by which the passage of such a cornice is sometimes rendered dangerous. On two occasions the Lacedaemonians retreated from Boeotia by this route, in order to avoid the more direct roads across Mt. Cithaeron. On the first of these occasions, in B.C. 378, the Lacedaemonian army under Cleombrotus was overtaken by such a violent storm, that the shields of the soldiers were wrested from their hands by the wind, and many of the beasts of burden were blown over the precipices. (Xen. Hell. 5.4. 16, seq.) The second time that they took this route was after the fatal battle of Leuctra, in B.C. 371. (Xen. Hell. 6.4§ 25, seq.) The exact site of Creusis is uncertain, but there can be no doubt that it must be placed with Leake somewhere in the bay of Livadhóstra. (Leake, Northern Greece, vol. ii. pp. 406, 505.)
(Κρέουσα). (1) A daughter of Creon , king of Corinth, and wife of Iason. She received from Medea, as bridal presents, a diadem and a robe, both of which had been prepared with magic art and saturated with deadly poisons. On arraying herself in these, flames burst forth and destroyed her. Creon , the father of the princess, perished in a similar way, having thrown himself upon the body of his dying daughter, and being afterwards unable to extricate himself from the embrace of the corpse (Eurip. Med. 781 foll., 1156 foll.). According to the scholiast, she was also called Glaucé.
(2) Daughter of Priam and Hecuba, and wife of Aeneas. When Troy was surprised by the Greeks, she fled in the night with her husband, but they were separated during the confusion, nor was her absence observed until the other fugitives arrived at the spot appointed for assembling. Aeneas a second time entered the burning city in quest of his wife; but while he was seeking for her through every quarter of Troy, Creüsa appeared to him as a deified personage, and appeased his alarm by informing him that she had been adopted by Cybelé among her own attendant nymphs; and she then urged him to pursue his course to Italy, with an intimation of the good fortune that awaited him in that land (Verg. Aen. ii. 562 foll.).