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In
Greek mythology , Eudora or Eudore (
Ancient Greek : Εὐδώρη
[1] means 'early' or 'leading'
[2] or 'she of good gifts'
[3] ) was a name given to three
nymphs :
Eudora, one of 3,000
Oceanids ,
water-nymph daughters of the
Titans
Oceanus and his sister-spouse
Tethys .
[4]
[5]
Eudora, the
Nereid of sailing and a good fish-catch.
[5] She was one of the 50 sea-nymph daughters of the '
Old Man of the Sea '
Nereus and the Oceanid
Doris .
[6]
Eudora, called "long-robed" in a
Hesiodic fragment, was one of the
Hyades , the
nymphs associated with the configuration of stars known as the
Hyades .
[7] She was the sister of
Aesyle (
Phaisyle ) and
Ambrosia ,
[8]
Polyxo and
Coronis ,
[9] and
Cleeia and
Phaeo .
[10] They were called the daughters of the
Titan
Atlas by either the
Oceanids
Aethra
[11] or
Pleione ,
[12] or of
Hyas and
Boeotia .
[13]
Notes
^ Smith,
s.v. Eudora .
^ Bane,
p. 130 .
^
Kerényi , Carl (1951). The Gods of the Greeks . London:
Thames and Hudson . pp. 41, 64.
^
Hesiod ,
Theogony
360
^
a
b Bane, Theresa (2013). Encyclopedia of Fairies in World Folklore and Mythology . McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers. p. 130.
ISBN
9780786471119 .
^ Hesiod, Theogony
243 ;
Apollodorus ,
1.2.7
^
Hyginus ,
De Astronomica
2.21.1 ,
Fabulae
192 ; Scholium on
Aratus ' Phenomena = Hesiod fr. 227a Most,
pp. 300, 301 = Hesiod fr. 291 MW.
^
Eustathius on
Homer 's
Iliad 1156
^ Hyginus, De Astronomica 2.21.1 with
Asclepiades as the authority
^ Scholium on Aratus' Phenomena = Hesiod fr. 227a Most,
pp. 300, 301 = Hesiod fr. 291 MW.
^ Hyginus, De Astronomica 2.21.4 with
Musaeus as the authority
^ Hyginus, Fabulae 192
^ Hyginus, De Astronomica 2.21.4 with Alexander as the authority
References
Bane, Theresa, Encyclopedia of Fairies in World Folklore and Mythology , McFarland, 2013.
ISBN
9780786471119 .
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 , in 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 .
Hyginus, Gaius Julius ,
Astronomica , in The Myths of Hyginus , edited and translated by Mary A. Grant, Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 1960.
Online version at the Topos Text Project .
Hyginus, Gaius Julius ,
Fabulae , in The Myths of Hyginus , edited and translated by Mary A. Grant, Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 1960.
Online version at the Topos Text Project.
Kerényi, Carl , The Gods of the Greeks , Thames and Hudson, London, 1951.
Most, G.W. , Hesiod: The Shield, Catalogue of Women, Other Fragments ,
Loeb Classical Library , No. 503, Cambridge, Massachusetts,
Harvard University Press , 2007, 2018.
ISBN
978-0-674-99721-9 .
Online version at Harvard University Press .
Smith, William ;
Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology , London (1867).
Online version at the Perseus Digital Library