Creusa

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For the town of ancient Boeotia, see Creusa (Boeotia).

In Greek mythology, Creusa (/kriːˈjuːsə/; Ancient Greek: Κρέουσα Kreousa "princess") may refer to the following figures:

* Creusa, a naiad daughter of Gaia.[1]
* Creusa, daughter of Erechtheus, King of Athens and his wife, Praxithea.[2]
* Creusa, also known by the name Glauce, was the daughter of King Creon of Corinth, Greece.
* Creusa, an Amazon spearwoman in a painting on a vase from Cumae that depicts a battle of the Amazons against Theseus and his army; she is portrayed as being overcome by Phylacus.[3]
* Creusa, daughter of Priam and Hecuba,[4] and the first wife of Aeneas, by whom she was the mother of Ascanius.
* Creusa, wife of the Carian Cassandrus and mother by him of Menes. Her son was killed by Neoptolemus in the Trojan War.[5]
* Creusa, a misnomer for Keroessa in the Etymologicum Magnum.[6]

## Notes

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1. ^ Gantz, p. 141; Pindar, Pythian Ode 9; Diodorus Siculus, 4.69.1.
2. ^ Apollodorus, 3.15.1
3. ^ Roscher, s. 1429
4. ^ Apollodorus, 3.12.5; Hyginus, Fabulae 90
5. ^ Quintus Smyrnaeus, 8.22
6. ^ Etymologicum Magnum 217.26 under Byzantion

## References

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* 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 Website
* 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.
* Gantz, Timothy, Early Greek Myth: A Guide to Literary and Artistic Sources, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996, Two volumes: ISBN 978-0-8018-5360-9 (Vol. 1), ISBN 978-0-8018-5362-3 (Vol. 2).
* 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.
* Pindar, Odes translated by Diane Arnson Svarlien. 1990. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
* Pindar, The Odes of Pindar including the Principal Fragments with an Introduction and an English Translation by Sir John Sandys, Litt.D., FBA. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1937. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
* Pseudo-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. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
* Quintus Smyrnaeus, The Fall of Troy translated by Way. A. S. Loeb Classical Library, Volume 19. London: William Heinemann, 1913. Online version at theio.com
* Quintus Smyrnaeus, The Fall of Troy. Arthur S. Way. London: William Heinemann; New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1913. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
* Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (ed.): Ausführliches Lexikon der griechischen und römischen Mythologie. Band 2.1 (I-K), Leipzig, 1890–1894, ss. 1425 - 1429

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