Thebe (mythology)
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Thebe (Ancient Greek: Θήβη, romanized: Thēbē; pronounced /ˈθiːbiː/, THEE-beh or THAY-bay) 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, eponym of Thebes, Egypt.[1] She was the daughter of either Nilus, Proteus,[2] or Libys, son of Epirus.[citation needed] In another account, Thebe was called the daughter of Zeus and Iodame and was given in marriage to Ogygus by her father after Deucalion’s flood.[3] She was the sister of another Deucalion.[4] One rare version of the myth makes Thebe a consort of Zeus and mother of Aegyptus[5] and/or Heracles.[6]
- Thebe, daughter of the river god Boeotian Asopus[2], and the Arcadian naiad Metope[7] (daughter of the river god Ladon[8]), who was said to have consorted with Zeus.[9] Amphion and Zethus named Boeotian Thebes after her[citation needed] because of their kinship, the twins being sons of her sister Antiope by Zeus. Egyptian Thebes was also named after her.[2]
- Thebe, daughter of Zeus and Megacleite and sister of Locrus[10], the man who assisted Amphion and Zethus in the building of Thebes.[11] She later on married Zethus and the Boeotian Thebes was named after her.[12]
- Thebe, daughter of Prometheus, and also a possible eponym of the Boeotian Thebes.[13]
- Thebe, daughter of Cilix[14] and thus, sister of Thasus.[15] By Corybas,[14] son of Cybele, she was the possible mother of Ida who begat Minos II by King Lycastus of Crete.[16] This Thebe is possibly the eponym of Cilician Thebe.
- Thebe, daughter of the Pelasgian Adramys, the eponym of Adramyttium[17] or of the river god Granicus[citation needed]. She married Heracles, who named Hypoplacian Thebes after her.[17]
- Thebe, an Amazon. [citation needed]
- Thebe, alternate name for the Titaness Phoebe.[citation needed]
See also
[edit]Notes
[edit]- ↑ Nonnus, 4.304, 5.86 & 41.270
- 1 2 3 Scholia ad Homer, Iliad 9.383
- ↑ Tzetzes on Lycophron, 1206 with the historian Lycus as the authority
- ↑ Murray, John (1833). A Classical Manual, being a Mythological, Historical and Geographical Commentary on Pope's Homer, and Dryden's Aeneid of Virgil with a Copious Index. Albemarle Street, London. p. 8.
- ↑ Tzetzes ad Lycophron, 1206.
- ↑ John Lydus, De mensibus 4.67
- ↑ Diodorus Siculus, 4.72.1; Pausanias, 2.5.2
- ↑ Diodorus_Siculus, 4.72.1; Apollodorus, 3.12.6.
- ↑ Pausanias, 5.22.6
- ↑ Pseudo-Clement, Recognitions 10, p. 123, l. 47
- ↑ Eustathius ad Homer, p. 1688
- ↑ Apollodorus, 3.5.6
- ↑ Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Thēbē (Θήβη)
- 1 2 Diodorus Siculus, 5.49.3
- ↑ Apollodorus, 3.1.1 with Pherecydes as the authority
- ↑ Diodorus Siculus, 4.60.3.
- 1 2 Scholia on Homer, Iliad 6.397
References
[edit]- 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
- Tzetzes, John, Lycophronis Alexandra. Vol. II: Scholia Continens, edited by Eduard Scheer, Berlin, Weidmann, 1881. Internet Archive.
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