Asopis

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Asopis (Ancient Greek: Ἀσωπίς or Ἀσωπίδος) was the name of two women in Greek mythology.

  • Asopis, one of the daughters of the river-god Asopus and Metope, daughter of the river-god Ladon.[1] Like her sister Aegina, she was abducted by Zeus in the likeness of a flame of fire.
  • Asopis, a Thespian princess as one of the 50 daughters of King Thespius and Megamede[2] or by one of his many wives.[3] When Heracles hunted and ultimately slayed the Cithaeronian lion,[4] Asopis with her other sisters, except for one,[5] all laid with the hero in a night,[6] a week[7] or for 50 days[8] as what their father strongly desired it to be.[9] Asopis bore Heracles a son, Mentor.[10]

Notes[]

  1. ^ Diodorus, 4.72.1
  2. ^ Apollodorus, 2.4.10; Tzetzes, Chiliades 2.222
  3. ^ Diodorus, 4.29.2
  4. ^ Apollodorus, 2.4.9.
  5. ^ Pausanias, 9.27.6; Diodorus, 4.29.3, f.n. 51
  6. ^ Pausanias, 9.27.6–7; Gregorius Nazianzenus, Orat. IV, Contra Julianum I (Migne S. Gr. 35.661)
  7. ^ Athenaeus, 13.4 with Herodorus as the authority; Diodorus Siculus, 4.29.3, f.n. 51
  8. ^ Apollodorus, 2.4.10; Diodorus, 4.29.3; Tzetzes, Chiliades 2.224
  9. ^ Apollodorus, 2.4.10; Diodorus, 4.29.3
  10. ^ Apollodorus, 2.7.8

References[]

  • Apollodorus, The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. ISBN 0-674-99135-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
  • Athenaeus of Naucratis, The Deipnosophists or Banquet of the Learned. London. Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden. 1854. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
  • Diodorus Siculus, Library of History, Volume III: Books 4.59-8, translated by C. H. Oldfather, Loeb Classical Library No. 340, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1939. ISBN 978-0-674-99375-4. Online version at Harvard University Press. Online version by Bill Thayer.
  • Pausanias, Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. ISBN 0-674-99328-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
  • Tzetzes, John, Book of Histories, Book II-IV translated by Gary Berkowitz from the original Greek of T. Kiessling's edition of 1826. Online version at The Theoi Project.


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