Phoenice, an
Attican princess as the daughter of the
autochthonous King
Actaion and sister to
Aglauros,
Erse and
Pandrosos. After she died a virgin, her father named after her the Phoenician letters in her honour.[1]
Phoenice, a dear companion of
Artemis who was seduced (or raped) by
Zeus. When she found out, Artemis turned her into a bear, and then later fixed her among the stars as the constellation
Ursa Minor.[4]
Notes
^Suda, s.v. Phoenician letters with the authority of Skamon in his second book on Discoveries
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.
Suida, Suda Encyclopedia translated by Ross Scaife, David Whitehead, William Hutton, Catharine Roth, Jennifer Benedict, Gregory Hays, Malcolm Heath Sean M. Redmond, Nicholas Fincher, Patrick Rourke, Elizabeth Vandiver, Raphael Finkel, Frederick Williams, Carl Widstrand, Robert Dyer, Joseph L. Rife, Oliver Phillips and many others.
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