Thebe (Greek myth)

Template:Greek myth (nymph)Thebe (Ancient Greek:) is a feminine name mentioned several times in Greek mythology, in accounts that imply multiple female characters, four of whom are said to have had three cities named Thebes after them:

• Thebe, daughter of Asopus and Metope,^[1] who was said to have consorted with Zeus.^[2] Amphion and Zethus named Boeotian Thebes^[3] after her because of their kinship, the twins being sons of her sister Antiope by Zeus.
• Thebe, daughter of Zeus and Iodame, given in marriage to Ogygus.^[4] She was the sister of Deucalion, otherwise unknown.^[5]
• Thebe, daughter of Zeus and Megacleite^[6] and sister of Locrus, the man who assisted Amphion and Zethus in the building of Thebes.^[7] She later on married Zethus.
• Thebe, daughter of Prometheus, and also a possible eponym of the Boeotian Thebes.^[8]
• Thebe, daughter of Cilix^[9] and thus, brother of Thasus.^[10] By Corybas,^[9] son of Cybele, she was the possible mother of Ida who begat Minos II by King Lycastus of Crete.^[11] This Thebe is possibly the eponym of Cilician Thebe.
• Thebe, eponym of Thebes, Egypt.^[12] She was the daughter of either Nilus, Epaphus, Proteus, or Libys, son of Epirus;^[13] rare versions of the myth make her a consort of Zeus and mother of Aegyptus^[4] or Heracles.^[14]
• Thebe, daughter of the Pelasgian Adramys, the eponym of Adramyttium, or of the river god Granicus. She married Heracles, who named Hypoplacian Thebes after her.^[15]
• Thebe, an Amazon. ^{[citation needed]}
• Thebe, alternate name for the Titaness Phoebe.^{[citation needed]}

See also

• Thebe (disambiguation)

Notes

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.
• 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.
• Pseudo-Clement, Recognitions from Ante-Nicene Library Volume 8, translated by Smith, Rev. Thomas. T. & T. Clark, Edinburgh. 1867. Online version at theio.com

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