Teledice

In Greek mythology, Teledice (Ancient Greek: Τηλεδικη Têledikê means "far-reaching"), the nymph wife of the first mortal king Phoroneus of Peloponesse, thus mother of Apis and Niobe.[1] Other sources called the consort(s) of Phoroneus as either Cerdo,[2] Cinna,[3] or Laodice also a nymph[4] or Perimede,[5] or Peitho and Europe.[6]

Greek deities
series
Nymphs

Notes
  1. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 2.1.1
  2. Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 2.21.1. Having descended thence, and having turned again to the market-place, we come to the tomb of Cerdo, the wife of Phoroneus, and to a temple of Asclepius.
  3. Hyginus, Fabulae 145
  4. Tzetzes on Lycophron 177
  5. Scholia on Pindar, Olympian Ode 3.28
  6. Scholia on Euripides, Orestes 932

References
  • Gaius Julius Hyginus, Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
  • 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-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.


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