Asopis
Asopis (Ancient Greek: Ἀσωπίς or Ἀσωπίδος) was the name of two women in Greek mythology.
- Asopis, one of the daughters of the river-god Asopus and Metope, daughter of the river-god Ladon.[1] Like her sister Aegina, she was abducted by Zeus in the likeness of a flame of fire.
- Asopis, a Thespian princess as one of the 50 daughters of King Thespius and Megamede[2] or by one of his many wives.[3] When Heracles hunted and ultimately slayed the Cithaeronian lion,[4] Asopis with her other sisters, except for one,[5] all laid with the hero in a night,[6] a week[7] or for 50 days[8] as what their father strongly desired it to be.[9] Asopis bore Heracles a son, Mentor.[10]
Notes
- Diodorus, 4.72.1
- Apollodorus, 2.4.10; Tzetzes, Chiliades 2.222
- Diodorus, 4.29.2
- Apollodorus, 2.4.9
- Pausanias, 9.27.6; Diodorus, 4.29.3, f.n. 51
- Pausanias, 9.27.6–7; Gregorius Nazianzenus, Orat. IV, Contra Julianum I (Migne S. Gr. 35.661)
- Athenaeus, 13.4 with Herodorus as the authority; Diodorus Siculus, 4.29.3, f.n. 51
- Apollodorus, 2.4.10; Diodorus, 4.29.3; Tzetzes, Chiliades 2.224
- Apollodorus, 2.4.10; Diodorus, 4.29.3
- Apollodorus, 2.7.8
References
- 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.
- Athenaeus of Naucratis, The Deipnosophists or Banquet of the Learned. London. Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden. 1854. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Athenaeus of Naucratis, Deipnosophistae. Kaibel. In Aedibus B.G. Teubneri. Lipsiae. 1887. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Diodorus Siculus, The Library of History translated by Charles Henry Oldfather. Twelve volumes. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1989. Vol. 3. Books 4.59–8. Online version at Bill Thayer's Web Site
- Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica. Vol 1-2. Immanel Bekker. Ludwig Dindorf. Friedrich Vogel. in aedibus B. G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1888-1890. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- 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.
- 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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