Euboea (mythology)
Euboea (/juːˈbiːə/; Ancient Greek: Εὔβοια) was the name of several women in Greek mythology.
- Euboea, one of the daughters of the river-god Asterion. She and her sisters, Acraea and Prosymna, were the nurses of Hera.[1][2]
- Euboea, a Naiad, daughter of the Boeotian river-god Asopus and of Metope.[3] Poseidon abducted her.[4] The island of Euboea was given her name.[5][6][7][8]
- Euboea, daughter of Larymnus. She and Polybus of Sicyon were possible parents of Glaucus.[9]
- Euboea, daughter of Macareus, king of Locris. She bore Apollo a son, Agreus.[10]
- Euboea, one of the fifty daughters of Thespius and Megamede. She bore Heracles a son Olympus.[11]
- Euboea, a heroine and eponym of the island of Euboea.[12][13] May be identical with one of the above.
- Euboea, mother of Triopas by Phorbas.[14]
References
- Pausanias, Description of Greece, 2. 17. 1
- Theoi Project - Nymphai Asterionides
- Diodorus Siculus, Library of History, 4. 72. 1
- Corinna, Fragment 654 (trans. Campbell)
- Eustathius on Homer, p. 278
- Nonnus, Dionysiaca 42. 411
- "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.
- Theoi Project - Nymphe Euboia
- Athenaeus, Banquet of the Learned, 7. 296b (p. 329)
- Hyginus, Fabulae, 161
- Apollodorus. The Library, 2.7.8..
- Strabo, Geography 10. 1. 3
- Stephanus of Byzantium s. v. Euboia
- Schol. ad Eurip. Or. 920
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