Menodice

In Greek mythology, Menodice or Menodike was the nymph daughter of Orion, thus (half)sister to Menippe and Metioche.[1] She was the mother of Hylas by King Theiodamas of the Dryopians.[2][3][4] In some accounts, his Hylas parent was Euphemus[5] or King Ceyx of Trachis.[6]

Notes

  1. Antoninus Liberalis, 25
  2. Hyginus, Fabulae 14
  3. Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.1213
  4. Propertius, Elegies 1.20.6
  5. Scholia ad Theocritus, Idylls 13.7
  6. Antoninus Liberalis, 26

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