Euboea (mythology)

Name of several women in Greek mythology

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Euboea (/juːˈbiːə/; Ancient Greek: Εὔβοια means 'well-cattle') was the name of several women in Greek mythology.

* Euboea, one of the Argive naiad daughters of the river-god Asterion. She and her sisters, Acraea and Prosymna, were the nurses of Hera.[1]
* Euboea, mother of Triopas[2] and possibly Arestor[3] by Phorbas.
* Euboea, one of the naiad daughters of the river-god Asopus[4] and possibly Metope, the river-nymph daughter of the river Ladon.[5] She was the sister of Aegina, Thebe, Plataea, Sinope, Thespia, Tanagra, Corcyra and Salamis. The last two and 'lovely' Euboea were all abducted by Poseidon from their father.[4] The god brought her to Euboea[6] where she became the eponymous heroine of the island.[7][8] She may identical with Chalcis[5] or Combe,[9] daughters of Asopus in some myths.
* Euboea, daughter of Larymnus. She and Polybus of Sicyon were possible parents of Glaucus.[10]
* Euboea, daughter of Macareus, king of Locris. She bore Apollo a son, Agreus.[11] Euboea's possible sister was Megaclite, consort of Zeus.[12]
* Euboea, a Thespian princess as one of the 50 daughters of King Thespius and Megamede[13] or by one of his many wives.[14] When Heracles hunted and ultimately slew the Cithaeronian lion,[15] Euboea and her other sisters, except for one,[16] all lay with the hero in a night,[17] a week[18] or for 50 days[19] as their father strongly desired.[20] Euboea bore Heracles a son, Olympus.[21]

## Notes

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1. ^ Pausanias, 2.17.1.
2. ^ Scholia on Euripides, Orestes 920.
3. ^ Scholia on Euripides, Phoenician Women 1116
4. ^ a b Corinna, fr. 654 Campbell, pp. 26–35.
5. ^ a b Diodorus Siculus, 4.72.1.
6. ^ Nonnus, 42.411
7. ^ Eustathius on Homer, p. 278; Strabo, 10.1.3; Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Euboia
8. ^ "William Smith, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, v. 2, page 60". Archived from the original on 2011-08-07. Retrieved 2011-09-02.
9. ^ Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Khalkis.
10. ^ Athenaeus, 7.296b (p. 329).
11. ^ Hyginus, Fabulae 161.
12. ^ Pseudo-Clement, Recognitions 10.21
13. ^ Apollodorus, 2.4.10; Tzetzes, Chiliades 2.222
14. ^ Diodorus Siculus, 4.29.2.
15. ^ Apollodorus, 2.4.9.
16. ^ Pausanias, 9.27.6; Diodorus Siculus, 4.29.3, f.n. 51.
17. ^ Pausanias, 9.27.6–7; Gregorius Nazianzenus, Orat. IV, Contra Julianum I (Migne S. Gr. 35.661).
18. ^ Athenaeus, 13.4 with Herodorus as the authority; Diodorus Siculus, 4.29.3, f.n. 51.
19. ^ Apollodorus, 2.4.10; Diodorus Siculus, 4.29.3; Tzetzes, Chiliades 2.224.
20. ^ Apollodorus, 2.4.10; Diodorus Siculus, 4.29.3
21. ^ Apollodorus, 2.7.8.

## References

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* 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.
* Athenaeus of Naucratis, The Deipnosophists or Banquet of the Learned. London. Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden. 1854. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
* Athenaeus of Naucratis, Deipnosophistae. Kaibel. In Aedibus B.G. Teubneri. Lipsiae. 1887. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
* Campbell, David A., Greek Lyric, Volume IV: Bacchylides, Corinna, Loeb Classical Library No. 461, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1992. ISBN 978-0-674-99508-6. Online version at Harvard University Press.
* 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.
* 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.
* Nonnus of Panopolis, Dionysiaca translated by William Henry Denham Rouse (1863-1950), from the Loeb Classical Library, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1940. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
* Nonnus of Panopolis, Dionysiaca. 3 Vols. W.H.D. Rouse. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1940-1942. 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
* Pseudo-Clement, Recognitions from Ante-Nicene Library Volume 8, translated by Smith, Rev. Thomas. T. & T. Clark, Edinburgh. 1867. Online version at theio.com
* 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.
* Strabo, The Geography of Strabo. Edition by H.L. Jones. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
* Strabo, Geographica edited by A. Meineke. Leipzig: Teubner. 1877. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
* Tzetzes, John, Book of Histories, Book II-IV translated by Gary Berkowitz from the original Greek of T. Kiessling's edition of 1826. Online version at theio.com

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