Mideia

For the town of ancient Argolis, see Mideia (Argolis). For the town of ancient Boeotia, see Mideia (Boeotia). For the town in Eastern Thrace, see Kıyıköy.

Template:Greek deities (nymphs)In Greek mythology, Mideia[pronunciation?] or Midea (Ancient Greek: Μιδειη) may refer to:

* Midea, a Phrygian slave, mother of Licymnius by Electryon.[1]
* Midea, a nymph, mother of Aspledon by Poseidon.[2] The town Lebadea was believed to have previously been named Mideia after her.[3]
* Midea, one of the Danaïdes. She married (and killed) Antimachus, son of Aegyptus.[4]
* Midea, daughter of Aloeus and eponym of a city in Argos.[5]

## Notes

1. ↑ Apollodorus, 2.4.5
2. ↑ Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Aspledon
3. ↑ Pausanias, 9.38.9–9.39.1 citing Chersias
4. ↑ Hyginus, Fabulae 170
5. ↑ Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Mideia

## 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.
* 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.
* 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.

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