In Hesiod's Catalogue of Women, Mestra married Autolycus, the master thief and grandson of Hermes. Their union connected Erysichthon's cursed lineage to the ancestry of Odysseus through Autolycus's daughter Anticlea.
Mestra is the daughter of Erysichthon. After her father was cursed with insatiable hunger, he sold Mestra into slavery repeatedly to buy food, exploiting the shape-shifting gift Poseidon had granted her.
Erysichthon exploited his daughter Mestra's shape-shifting gift by selling her into slavery repeatedly. Each time Mestra escaped by transforming, only to be sold again, until her father's hunger finally consumed him.
Poseidon granted Mestra the power of shape-shifting, and when her father Erysichthon sold her repeatedly to feed his cursed hunger, she called upon the god to transform her and escape each new master.
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