Ourea

In

According to Hesiod:

And [Gaia] brought forth long hills [Οὔρεα], graceful haunts
of the goddess Nymphs who dwell amongst the glens of the hills.^[2]

Defined by Middle Liddell as from οὖρος "mountain, hill; mule; a guard."^[3]

Notes

References

• Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica translated by Robert Cooper Seaton (1853–1915), R. C. Loeb Classical Library Volume 001. London, William Heinemann Ltd, 1912. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
• Caldwell, Richard, Hesiod's Theogony, Focus Publishing/R. Pullins Company (June 1, 1987).
  ISBN 978-0-941051-00-2. Internet Archive
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• Fitz Simon, James A., Vincent Alphonso Fitz Simon, The Gods of Old: and The Story That They Tell, T. Fisher Unwin, 1899. p. 27
• ISBN 978-0-8018-5362-3
  (Vol. 2).
• Hard, Robin, Herbert Jennings Rose, The Routledge Handbook of Greek Mythology: Based on H.J. Rose's "Handbook of Greek mythology", Routledge, 2004.
  ISBN 978-0-415-18636-0. p. 24
• Hesiod, Theogony from The Homeric Hymns and Homerica with an English Translation by Hugh G. Evelyn-White, Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1914. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
• Littleton, Scott and the Marshall Cavendish Corporation Gods, Goddesses, and Mythology, Volume 1. Marshall Cavendish, 2005.
  ISBN 978-0-7614-7559-0. pp. 1020, 1134
• http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/morph?l=ou%29%2Frea&la=greek&can=ou%29%2Frea0&prior=o)/ros#Perseus:text:1999.04.0058:entry=o)/ros-contents