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Ancient Greek female name
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
nymph and one of the 50
Danaïdes , daughter of King
Danaus . She was the mother of
King Dryops of
Oeta , by the
river-gods
Spercheus
[4] or
Peneus .
[5]
Polydora, wife of
Aphareus of Messenia and thus, the possible mother of his children,
Idas ,
Lynceus and
Peisus .
[6] In some accounts, the consort of Aphareus was called
Arene
[7] or
Laocoosa .
[8]
Polydora, daughter of
Peleus and
Antigone , daughter of King
Eurytion of
Phthia .
[9] She married
Borus , son of
Perieres , who wooed her with large dowry, but regardless of this, Polydora became the mother of
Menesthius by
Spercheios .
[10]
Polydora, daughter of
Perieres and wife of
Peleus . In some accounts, she became the mother of Menesthius by Spercheus.
[11]
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
^
a
b Bane, Theresa (2013). Encyclopedia of Fairies in World Folklore and Mythology . McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers. p. 279.
ISBN
9780786471119 .
^
Kerényi , Carl (1951). The Gods of the Greeks . London:
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.
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 .
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 ,
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.
ISBN
978-0674995796 .
Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
Homer, Homeri Opera in five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920.
ISBN
978-0198145318 .
Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library .
Kerényi, Carl , The Gods of the Greeks , Thames and Hudson, London, 1951.
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 .
Theocritus , Idylls from The Greek Bucolic Poets t ranslated by Edmonds, J M. Loeb Classical Library Volume 28. Cambridge, MA. Harvard Univserity Press. 1912.
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Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.