Hesione (mythology)
In Greek mythology, the name Hesione (/hɪˈsaɪ.əniː/; Ancient Greek: Ἡσιονη) refers to various mythological figures:
- Hesione, a Trojan princess and daughter of Laomedon.[1]
- Hesione, a daughter of Oceanus.[2]
- Hesione, one of the names given to the wife of Nauplius, who was the father of Palamedes, Oiax and Nausimedon. The mythographer Apollodorus reports that, according to Cercops Nauplius' wife was Hesione, and that in the Nostoi (Returns), an early epic from the Trojan cycle of poems about the Trojan War, his wife was Philyra, but that according to the "tragic poets" his wife was Clymene.[3]
- Hesione, daughter of Celeus, was one of the sacrificial victims of Minotaur.[4]
- Hesione, also called Isonoe[5], one of the Danaids who became the lover of Zeus and bore a son by him, Orchomenos.
Other
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Notes
- ^ Pseudo-Apollodorus. Bibliotheca, 2.5.9, 2.6.4, 3.12.7
- ^ Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 552–560.
- ^ Hard, p. 236; Gantz, p. 604; Apollodorus, 2.1.5, 3.2.2, E.6.8; Dictys Cretensis, 1.1, 5.2.
- ^ Servius (Aeneid, 6. 21)
- ^ Scholia on Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.230
References
- Apollodorus, 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.
- 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).
- Hard, Robin, The Routledge Handbook of Greek Mythology: Based on H.J. Rose's "Handbook of Greek Mythology", Psychology Press, 2004, ISBN 9780415186360. Google Books.
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