Xenodice (mythology)
In Greek mythology, Xenodice or Xenodike (Ancient Greek: Ξενοδίκη) may refer to the following characters:
- Xenodice, a Cretan princess. She was the daughter of King Minos either by Pasiphae or Crete. Xenodice was the sister of Acacallis, Ariadne, Androgeus, Deucalion, Phaedra, Glaucus and Catreus.[1]
- Xenodice or Xenodoce, daughter of Syleus who lived in Aulis, Boeotia. She and her father were both killed by Heracles.[2]
- Xenodice, a Trojan captive. (see List of children of Priam)[3]
Notes
- ^ Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3.1.2.
- ^ Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 2.6.3
- ^ Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 10.26.1
References
- 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. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
- Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. 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.
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