Aethusa

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Template:Short description Script error: No such module "other uses". In Greek mythology, Aethusa (Ancient Greek: Αἵθουσα) was a daughter of Poseidon and the Pleiad Alcyone, daughter of Atlas.[1][2][3] She was loved by Apollo and bore to him Eleuther[4] and Linus.[5] Through either of the latter two, Aethusa became the grandmother of Pierus, father of Oeagrus, father of the musician Orpheus. Because of this genealogical fact, she was usually identified as a Thracian.[6]

The word aethusa was used as an epithet for a portico that was open to the sun above.[7]

According to Pliny's Naturalis Historia, Aethusa is also the eponym of the Italian island which is now called Linosa.

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  1. Suida, s.v. Homer; Of the Origin of Homer and Hesiod and their Contest, Fragment 1.314
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  4. Apollodorus, 3.10.1; Pausanias, 9.20.2
  5. Suida, s.v. Homer; Of the Origin of Homer and Hesiod and their Contest, Fragment 1.314
  6. Suida, s.v. Homer
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