Asia (Greek Myth)

From Handwiki
Short description: Deities in Greek mythology

In Greek mythology, Asia[1] (Ancient Greek:) may refer to these deities:

  • Asia, one of the 3,000 Oceanides, daughter of the Titans Oceanus and Tethys.[2]
  • Asia, one of the 50 Nereids, sea-nymph daughters of the 'Old Man of the Sea' Nereus and the Oceanid Doris.[3] She was counted in the train of Cyrene and may be the same to the above Asia.[4]
  • Asia, a surname of Athena in Colchis. Her worship was believed to have been brought from thence by Castor and Polydeuces to Laconia, where a temple was built to her at Las.[5]

Notes

  1. Bell, Robert E. (1991). Women of Classical Mythology: A Biographical Dictionary. ABC-CLIO. pp. 74. ISBN 9780874365818. 
  2. Apollodorus, 1.2.2.
  3. Hyginus, Fabulae Preface.
  4. Virgil, Georgics 4.343
  5. Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 3.24.5

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.
  • Bell, Robert E., Women of Classical Mythology: A Biographical Dictionary. ABC-Clio. 1991. ISBN:9780874365818.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Publius Vergilius Maro, Bucolics, Aeneid, and Georgics of Vergil. J. B. Greenough. Boston. Ginn & Co. 1900. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.



Retrieved from "https://handwiki.org/wiki/index.php?title=Unsolved:Asia_(Greek_myth)&oldid=2977433"

Categories: [Nereids]


Download as ZWI file | Last modified: 07/12/2024 06:23:30 | 62 views
☰ Source: https://handwiki.org/wiki/Unsolved:Asia_(Greek_myth) | License: CC BY-SA 3.0

ZWI is not signed. [what is this?]