Leanira

In Greek mythology, Leanira or Leaneira (Ancient Greek: Λεανείρας), also known as Laodamia[1], was a Spartan princess who later became an Arcadian queen.

Mythology

Leanira was the daughter King Amyclas[2] and possibly Diomede, daughter of Lapithes. Through this parentage, she was considered the sister of Argalus,[3] Cynortes,[4] Hyacinthus,[5] Harpalus,[6] Hegesandra,[7] Polyboea,[8] and in other versions, of Daphne.[9]

Later on, Leaneira married King Arcas, son of Callisto and Zeus. According to the mythographer Apollodorus, the couple had two children, Elatus and Apheidas.[2] A scholion on Euripides' Orestes adds Azan to this list,[10] while the geographer Pausanias also mentions Triphylus as their child.[11] The former two sons divided Arcadia after the demise of their father.

Notes
  1. Pausanias, 10.9.5
  2. Apollodorus, 3.9.1
  3. Pausanias, 3.1.3
  4. Apollodorus, 1.9.5 & 3.10.3; Pausanias, 3.13.1
  5. Apollodorus, 3.10.3; Pausanias, 3.1.3
  6. Pausanias, 7.18.5 (Achaica)
  7. Scholia on Homer, Odyssey 4.10; Pherecydes, fr. 132
  8. Pausanias, 3.19.4
  9. Parthenius, Erotica Pathemata 15
  10. Fowler, p. 107; Scholia on Euripides' Orestes, 1646.
  11. Pausanias, 10.9.5.

References
  • 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.
  • Fowler, R. L. (2013), Early Greek Mythography: Volume 2: Commentary, Oxford University Press, 2013. ISBN 978-0-198-14741-1. Google Books.
  • Parthenius, Love Romances translated by Sir Stephen Gaselee (1882-1943), S. Loeb Classical Library Volume 69. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. 1916. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
  • Parthenius, Erotici Scriptores Graeci, Vol. 1. Rudolf Hercher. in aedibus B. G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1858. 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


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