Orithyia
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In Greek mythology, Orithyia or Oreithyia (Script error: No such module "IPAc-en".;[1] Template:Langx; Template:Langx; Template:Literal translation) was the name of the following women:
- Orithyia or Orythya,[2] the Nereid of raging seas[3] and one of the 50 marine-nymph daughters of the 'Old Man of the Sea' Nereus and the Oceanid Doris.[4] She and her other sisters appear to Thetis when she cries out in sympathy for the grief of Achilles at the slaying of Patroclus.[5]
- Orithyia, a daughter of Cecrops, wife of Makednos and mother of Europus.[6][7]
- Orithyia, a daughter of Erechtheus, who was abducted by Boreas.[8]
- Orithyia, a nymph, who was either the mother of Cinyras by Belus or the wife of Cinyras and mother of Smyrna/Myrrha (thus doublet of Cenchreis).[9]
- Orithyia, queen of the Amazons.[10]
Notes
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- ↑ Joseph Emerson Worcester, A comprehensive dictionary of the English language, Boston, 1871, p. 480, rule 3, where he notes that the pronunciation of such names is not e.g. Script error: No such module "IPAc-en". "as in Walker" (see e.g. Walker and Trollope, A key to the classical pronunciation etc., London, 1830, p. 123)
- ↑ Hyginus, Fabulae Preface (Latin ed. Micyllus; Scheffero)
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- ↑ Homer, Iliad 18.48
- ↑ Homer, Iliad 18.39-51
- ↑ Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Eurōpos
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- ↑ Apollodorus, 3.15.1
- ↑ Antoninus Liberalis, 34. The wording of the ancient Greek text is ambiguous.
- ↑ Apollodorus, 2.5.9
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References
- Antoninus Liberalis, The Metamorphoses of Antoninus Liberalis translated by Francis Celoria (Routledge 1992). Online version at the Topos Text Project.
- 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.
- Homer, The Iliad with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, Ph.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924. Template:ISBN. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Homer, Homeri Opera in five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920. Template:ISBN. 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.