Editing Lamia (section)

===De-mythologized===
[[Diodorus Siculus]] ({{fl.|1st century BC}}) gave a de-mythologized account of Lamia as a queen of Libya who ordered her soldiers to snatch children from their mothers and kill them, and whose beauty gave way to bestial appearance due to her savageness. The queen, as related by Diodorus, was born in a cave.<ref name=diodorus>[[Diodorus Siculus]] ({{fl.|1st century BC}}), ''[[Bibliotheca historica|Library of History]]'' XX.41, quoted by {{harvp|Ogden|2013b|p=98}}</ref><ref name=diodorus-gk>Bekker, Immanuel, ed., Diodorus Siculus, {{URL|1=http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0060.tlg001.perseus-grc2:20.41 |2=Bibliotheca Historica}} XX.41</ref> [[Heraclitus Paradoxographus]] (2nd century) also gave a rationalizing account.{{sfnp|Ogden|2013b|p=99}}

Diodorus's rationalization was that the Libyan queen in her [[Alcohol intoxication|drunken state]] was as if she could not see, allowing her citizens free rein for any conduct without supervision, giving rise to the folk myth that she places her eyes in a vessel.<ref name=diodorus/> [[Heraclitus Paradoxographus|Heraclitus]]'s [[euhemerized]] account explains that Hera, consort of Zeus, gouged the eyes out of the beautiful Lamia.<ref name=heraclitus>[[Heraclitus Paradoxographus]] (2nd century) ''De Incredibilibus'' 34, quoted by {{harvp|Ogden|2013b|p=98}}</ref>