Mideia
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In Greek mythology, Mideia[pronunciation?] or Midea (Ancient Greek: Μιδειη) may refer to:
- Midea, a Phrygian slave, mother of Licymnius by Electryon.[1]
- Midea, a nymph, mother of Aspledon by Poseidon.[2] The town Lebadea was believed to have previously been named Mideia after her.[3]
- Midea, one of the Danaïdes. She married (and killed) Antimachus, son of Aegyptus.[4]
- Midea, daughter of Aloeus and eponym of a city in Argos.[5]
Notes[]
- ^ Apollodorus 2.4.5
- ^ Stephanus of Byzantium, Ethnica s.v. Aspledon
- ^ Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 9.38.9 - 9.39.1, citing Chersias
- ^ Hyginus, Fabulae 170
- ^ Stephanus of Byzantium, Ethnica s.v. Mideia
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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