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In
Greek mythology, Plouto or Pluto (
Ancient Greek: Πλουτώ means 'wealth') was the 'soft eyed'
Oceanid,
[1]
[2] one of the 3,000
water-nymph daughters of
Titans
Oceanus and his sister-wife
Tethys.
[3]
Mythology
Pluto was one of the "deep-bosomed daughters of Oceanus" who were the playmates of
Persephone when she was abducted by
Hades.
[4]
Notes
References
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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.
- The Homeric Hymns and Homerica with an English Translation by Hugh G. Evelyn-White. Homeric Hymns. Cambridge, MA.,Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1914.
Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
Greek text available from the same website.
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Smith, William;
Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London (1873).