Editing Admete (section)

== 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>