Thebe (Greek myth)
Thebe (Ancient Greek: Θήβη) 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, daughter of Asopus and Metope,[1] who was said to have consorted with Zeus.[2] Amphion and Zethus named Boeotian Thebes[3] after her because of their kinship, the twins being sons of her sister Antiope by Zeus.
- Thebe, daughter of Zeus and Iodame, given in marriage to Ogygus.[4] She was the sister of Deucalion, otherwise unknown.[5]
- Thebe, daughter of Zeus and Megacleite[6] and sister of Locrus, the man who assisted Amphion and Zethus in the building of Thebes.[7] She later on married Zethus.
- Thebe, daughter of Prometheus, and also a possible eponym of the Boeotian Thebes.[8]
- Thebe, daughter of Cilix[9] and thus, brother of Thasus.[10] By Corybas,[9] son of Cybele, she was the possible mother of Ida who begat Minos II by King Lycastus of Crete.[11] This Thebe is possibly the eponym of Cilician Thebe.
- Thebe, eponym of Thebes, Egypt.[12] She was the daughter of either Nilus, Epaphus, Proteus, or Libys, son of Epirus;[13] rare versions of the myth make her a consort of Zeus and mother of Aegyptus[4] or Heracles.[14]
- Thebe, daughter of the Pelasgian Adramys, the eponym of Adramyttium, or of the river god Granicus. She married Heracles, who named Hypoplacian Thebes after her.[15]
- Thebe, an Amazon.
- Thebe, alternate name for the Titaness Phoebe.
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Notes
- Diodorus Siculus, 4.72.1; Pausanias, 2.5.2
- Pausanias, 5.22.6
- Apollodorus, 3.5.6
- Tzetzes on Lycophron, 1206
- 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.
- Pseudo-Clement, Recognitions 10.21
- Eustathius ad Homer, p. 1688
- Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Thēbē
- Diodorus Siculus, 5.49.3
- Apollodorus, 3.1.1 with Pherecydes as the authority
- Diodorus Siculus, 4.60.3.
- Nonnus, 4.304, 5.86 & 41.270
- Scholia on Homer, Iliad 9.383
- John Lydus, De mensibus 4.67
- Scholia on Homer, Iliad 6.396
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.
- 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
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