Eidothea (Greek myth)
In Greek mythology, Eidothea or Idothea (Ancient Greek: Εἰδοθέα) was the name of the following women:
- Idothea, a daughter of Oceanus and possibly Tethys, thus considered to be one of the Oceanids. Together with her sisters Adrasta and Althaea (Amalthea[1]), she was one of the nurses of young Zeus.[2]
- Eidothea, a sea goddess and daughter of Proteus, the Old Man of the Sea. She told Menelaus how to hold her father so that he could not escape.[3] Eidothea was simply called Eido who changed her name into Theonoe.[4] Another of her name was Eurynome.[5]
- Eidothea, a nymph of Othreis who mothered by Eusiros (son of Poseidon) of Cerambus who was metamorphosed by the nymphs into a gnawing beetle because of his insolence.[6] In some myths, her son was borne up into the air on wings by the nymphs escaping the flood of Deucalion.[7]
- Eidothea or Eidothee, a Carian woman, daughter of King Eurytus and possible spouse of Miletus who bore him Byblis and Caunus.[8]
- Eidothea, second wife of Phineus, king of Thrace. She was the sister of Cadmus and thus, maybe the daughter of Agenor, king of Tyre. Eidothea put out the eyes of her stepsons (Gerymbas and Aspondus[9]) with the sharp shuttle in her blood-stained hands and also caused to imprisoned them.[10][11]
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Notes
- An outdated Latin text of Hyginus' Fabulae has Althaea, see Smith and Trzaskoma, p. 191 endnote to 182; West 1983, p. 133.
- Hyginus, Fabulae 182
- Homer, Odyssey 4.360ff
- Euripides, Helen 9
- Zenodotus in scholia on Homer, Odyssey 4.366
- Antoninus Liberalis, Metamorphoses 22 vs Cerambus
- Ovid, Metamorphoses 7.353 - 356
- Antoninus Liberalis, Metamorphoses 30 vs Byblis
- Scholia on Sophocles, Antigone 981 & 989 ed. Brunck
- Scholia on Sophocles, Antigone 989
- Sir Richard C. Jebb. Commentary on Sophocles: Antigone, 966
References
- Antoninus Liberalis, The Metamorphoses of Antoninus Liberalis translated by Francis Celoria (Routledge 1992). Online version at the Topos Text Project.
- Euripides, The Complete Greek Drama, edited by Whitney J. Oates and Eugene O'Neill, Jr. in two volumes. 2. Helen, translated by Robert Potter. New York. Random House. 1938. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Euripides, Euripidis Fabulae. vol. 3. Gilbert Murray. Oxford. Clarendon Press, Oxford. 1913. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Gaius Julius Hyginus, Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
- Homer, The Iliad with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, Ph.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924. ISBN 978-0674995796. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Homer, Homeri Opera in five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920. ISBN 978-0198145318. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Publius Ovidius Nasao, Metamorphoses translated by Brookes More (1859-1942). Boston, Cornhill Publishing Co. 1922. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Publius Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses. Hugo Magnus. Gotha (Germany). Friedr. Andr. Perthes. 1892. Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Trzaskoma, Stephen M., R. Scott Smith, and Stephen Brunet, Anthology of Classical Myth: Primary Sources in Translation, Hackett Publishing, 2004.ISBN 0-87220-721-8. Google books.
- West, M. L. (1983), The Orphic Poems, Clarendon Press Oxford, 1983. ISBN 978-0-19-814854-8.
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