Polydora
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Polydora (Ancient Greek: Πολυδώρᾱ in Attic and Πολυδώρη in Ionic, means 'many-gifts' or 'the shapely'[1]) was the name of several characters in Greek mythology:
- Polydora, the 'handsome' Oceanid, one of the 3,000 water-nymph daughters of the Titans Oceanus and his sister-spouse Tethys.[1][2][3]
- Polydora, a
- Polydora, wife of
- Polydora, daughter of Perieres, who wooed her with large dowry, but regardless of this, Polydora became the mother of Menesthius by Spercheios.[10]
- Polydora, daughter of
- Polydora, daughter of Meleager and Cleopatra. She was married to Protesilaus, and after his death she was so affected by grief that she took her own life.[12]
- Polydora, one of the Amazons.[13]
See also
References
- ^ ISBN 9780786471119.
- Thames and Hudson. p. 41.
- ^ Hesiod, Theogony 354
- ^ Antoninus Liberalis, 32
- ^ Scholiast on Apollonius Rhodius, 1.1212
- ^ Scholia on Apollonius Rhodius, 1.152 with a reference to Peisander for Polydora
- ^ Apollodorus, 3.10.3
- ^ Theocritus, Idyll 22.206; Scholia on Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.152, with a reference to Theocritus for Laocoosa
- ^ Apollodorus, 3.13.4; Eustathius on Homer, p. 321
- ^ Homer, Iliad 16.177
- ^ Apollodorus, 3.13.4
- ^ Pausanias, 4.2.7
- ^ Hyginus, Fabulae 163
Bibliography
- Antoninus Liberalis, The Metamorphoses of Antoninus Liberalis translated by Francis Celoria (Routledge 1992). Online version at the Topos Text Project.
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- 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.
- Homer, Homeri Opera in five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920. .
- Kerényi, Carl, The Gods of the Greeks, Thames and Hudson, London, 1951.
- Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Theocritus, Idylls from The Greek Bucolic Poets translated by Edmonds, J M. Loeb Classical Library Volume 28. Cambridge, MA. Harvard Univserity Press. 1912. Online version at theoi.com
- Theocritus, Idylls edited by R. J. Cholmeley, M.A. London. George Bell & Sons. 1901. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
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