Praxithea, the woman that cried out when she saw
Demeter holding
Metanira's son
Demophon in the fires, thus preventing him from becoming immortal.[9]
Praxithea (or Phrasithea), daughter of
Leos.[10] Along with her sisters,
Theope and
Eubule, she sacrificed herself in order to save
Athens. In another version, their father was the one who offered them up to sacrifice. A precinct called the Leocorium was dedicated to the worship of these three maidens at Athens.[11]
Praxithea, a
Thespian princess as one of the 50 daughters of King
Thespius and
Megamede[12] or by one of his many wives.[13] When Heracles hunted and ultimately slayed the
Cithaeronian lion,[14] Praxithea with her other sisters, except for one,[15] all laid with the hero in a night,[16] a week[17] or for 50 days[18] as what their father strongly desired it to be.[19] Praxithea bore
Heracles a son,
Nephus.[20]
Claudius Aelianus, Claudii Aeliani de natura animalium libri xvii, varia historia, epistolae, fragmenta, Vol 2. Rudolf Hercher. In Aedibus B.G. Teubneri. Lipsiae. 1866.
Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
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.
Online version at the Topos Text Project.
Tzetzes, John, Book of Histories, Book II-IV translated by Gary Berkowitz from the original Greek of T. Kiessling's edition of 1826.
Online version at theio.com
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