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Clio (mythology)

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Short description: Set of mythological Greek characters

In Greek mythology, Clio (/ˈkliːoʊ/, more rarely /ˈklaɪoʊ/; Ancient Greek: Κλειώ Kleiṓ means "made famous" or "to make famous"), also spelled Cleio,[1] may refer to the following women:

  • Clio, one of the 3,000 Oceanids, water nymph daughters of the Titans Oceanus and his sister-spouse Tethys.[2] Her name means "fame-giver".[3]
  • Clio or Cleio,[4] one of the 50 Nereids, the sea-nymph daughters of 'Old Man of the Sea' Nereus and the Oceanid Doris.[5]
  • Clio, one of the Muses, daughters of Zeus and the Titan Mnemosyne.[6]
  • Cleo, one of the 50 Danaides, daughters of the Libyan king Danaus. She married and murdered her cousin-husband Asterius.[7][8]

Notes

  1. Harvey, Paul (1984). "Clio/Kleio". The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature (Revised 1984 ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 110. ISBN 0-19-281490-7. 
  2. Virgil, Georgics 4.341
  3. Bane, Theresa (2013). Encyclopedia of Fairies in World Folklore and Mythology. McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers. p. 86. ISBN 9780786471119. 
  4. Hyginus, Fabulae Preface (Latin ed. Micyllus; Scheffero; Munckerus; Staveren; Schmidt)
  5. Hyginus, Fabulae Preface
  6. Apollodorus, 3.10.3; Pausanias, 3.1.3 & 3.19.4
  7. Hyginus, Fabulae 170
  8. Bane, Theresa (2013). Encyclopedia of Fairies in World Folklore and Mythology. McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers. p. 85. ISBN 9780786471119. 

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.
  • Publius Vergilius Maro, Bucolics, Aeneid, and Georgics of Vergil. J. B. Greenough. Boston. Ginn & Co. 1900. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.




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