Euboea (mythology)
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Euboea (/juːˈbiːə/; Ancient Greek: Εὔβοια) was the name of several women in Greek mythology.
- Euboea, one of the daughters of the river-god Asterion. She and her sisters, Acraea and , were the nurses of Hera.[1]
- Euboea, mother of Triopas[2] and possibly Arestor[3] by Phorbas.
- Euboea, a Naiad, daughter of the Boeotian river-god Asopus and of Metope.[4] Poseidon abducted her.[5] The island of Euboea was given her name.[6][7]
- Euboea, daughter of . She and Polybus of Sicyon were possible parents of Glaucus.[8]
- Euboea, daughter of Macareus, king of Locris. She bore Apollo a son, Agreus.[9] Euboea's possible sister was Megaclite, consort of Zeus.[10]
- Euboea, a Thespian princess as one of the 50 daughters of King Thespius and Megamede[11] or by one of his many wives.[12] When Heracles hunted and ultimately slayed the Cithaeronian lion,[13] Euboea with her other sisters, except for one,[14] all laid with the hero in a night,[15] a week[16] or for 50 days[17] as what their father strongly desired it to be.[18] Euboea bore Heracles a son, Olympus.[19]
- Euboea, a heroine and eponym of the island of Euboea.[20] May be identical with one of the above.
Notes[]
- ^ Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 2.17.1
- ^ Scholia ad Euripides, Orestes 920
- ^ Scholia on Euripides, Phoenician Women 1116
- ^ Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca historica 4.72.1
- ^ Corinna, fr. 654 (trans. Campbell)
- ^ Eustathius on Homer, p. 278; Nonnus, Dionysiaca 42.411
- ^ "William Smith, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, v. 2, page 60". Archived from the original on 2011-08-07. Retrieved 2011-09-02.
- ^ Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae 7.296b (p. 329)
- ^ Hyginus, Fabulae 161
- ^ Pseudo-Clement, Recognitions 10.21
- ^ Apollodorus, 2.4.10; Tzetzes, Chiliades 2.222
- ^ Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca historica 4.29.2
- ^ Apollodorus, 2.4.9
- ^ Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 9.27.6; Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca historica 4.29.3, f.n. 51
- ^ Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 9.27.6–7; Gregorius Nazianzenus, Orat. IV, Contra Julianum I (Migne S. Gr. 35.661)
- ^ Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae 13.4 with Herodorus as the authority; Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca historica 4.29.3, f.n. 51
- ^ Apollodorus, 2.4.10; Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca historica 4.29.3; Tzetzes, Chiliades 2.224
- ^ Apollodorus, 2.4.10; Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca historica 4.29.3
- ^ Apollodorus, 2.7.8
- ^ Strabo, Geographica 10.1.3; Stephanus of Byzantium, Ethnica s.v. Euboia
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. Greek text available from the same website.
- 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.
- Athenaeus of Naucratis, Deipnosophistae. Kaibel. In Aedibus B.G. Teubneri. Lipsiae. 1887. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Diodorus Siculus, The Library of History translated by Charles Henry Oldfather. Twelve volumes. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1989. Vol. 3. Books 4.59–8. Online version at Bill Thayer's Web Site
- Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica. Vol 1-2. Immanel Bekker. Ludwig Dindorf. Friedrich Vogel. in aedibus B. G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1888-1890. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Gaius Julius Hyginus, Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
- Nonnus of Panopolis, Dionysiaca translated by William Henry Denham Rouse (1863-1950), from the Loeb Classical Library, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1940. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
- Nonnus of Panopolis, Dionysiaca. 3 Vols. W.H.D. Rouse. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1940-1942. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- 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
- Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Pseudo-Clement, Recognitions from Ante-Nicene Library Volume 8, translated by Smith, Rev. Thomas. T. & T. Clark, Edinburgh. 1867. Online version at theio.com
- Stephanus of Byzantium, Stephani Byzantii Ethnicorum quae supersunt, edited by August Meineike (1790-1870), published 1849. A few entries from this important ancient handbook of place names have been translated by Brady Kiesling. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
- Strabo, The Geography of Strabo. Edition by H.L. Jones. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Strabo, Geographica edited by A. Meineke. Leipzig: Teubner. 1877. Greek text available 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 theio.com
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