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Euboea (;
Ancient Greek : Εὔβοια means 'well-cattle') was the name of several women in
Greek mythology .
Euboea, one of the
Argive
naiad daughters of the river-god
Asterion . She and her sisters,
Acraea and
Prosymna , were the nurses of
Hera .
[1]
Euboea, mother of
Triopas
[2] and possibly
Arestor
[3] by
Phorbas .
Euboea, one of the
naiad daughters of the
river-god
Asopus
[4] and possibly
Metope , the river-nymph daughter of the river
Ladon .
[5] She was the sister of
Aegina ,
Thebe ,
Plataea ,
Sinope ,
Thespia ,
Tanagra ,
Corcyra and
Salamis . The last two and 'lovely' Euboea were all abducted by
Poseidon from their father.
[6] The god brought her to
Euboea
[7] where she became the eponymous heroine of the island.
[8]
[9] She may identical with
Chalcis
[5] or
Combe ,
[10] daughters of Asopus in some myths.
Euboea, daughter of
Larymnus . She and
Polybus of Sicyon were possible parents of
Glaucus .
[11]
Euboea, daughter of
Macareus , king of
Locris . She bore
Apollo a son,
Agreus .
[12] Euboea's possible sister was
Megaclite , consort of
Zeus .
[13]
Euboea, a
Thespian princess as one of the 50 daughters of King
Thespius and
Megamede
[14] or by one of his many wives.
[15] When Heracles hunted and ultimately slayed the
Cithaeronian lion ,
[16] Euboea with her other sisters, except for one,
[17] all laid with the hero in a night,
[18] a week
[19] or for 50 days
[20] as what their father strongly desired it to be.
[21] Euboea bore
Heracles a son,
Olympus .
[22]
Notes
^
Pausanias ,
2.17.1 .
^
Scholia on
Euripides ,
Orestes 920.
^ Scholia on Euripides,
Phoenician Women 1116
^
Corinna ,
fr. 654 Campbell, pp. 26–35 .
^
a
b
Diodorus Siculus , 4.72.1.
^
Corinna ,
fr. 654 Campbell, pp. 26–35 .
^
Nonnus , 42.411
^
Eustathius on
Homer , p. 278;
Strabo , 10.1.3;
Stephanus of Byzantium , s.v. Euboia
^
"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 .
^
Stephanus of Byzantium , s.v. Khalkis .
^
Athenaeus , 7.296b (p. 329).
^
Hyginus ,
Fabulae
161 .
^
Pseudo-Clement , Recognitions
10.21
^
Apollodorus ,
2.4.10 ;
Tzetzes , Chiliades 2.222
^
Diodorus Siculus , 4.29.2.
^
Apollodorus ,
2.4.9 .
^
Pausanias ,
9.27.6 ;
Diodorus Siculus , 4.29.3,
f.n. 51 .
^
Pausanias ,
9.27.6–7 ; Gregorius Nazianzenus, Orat. IV, Contra Julianum I (Migne S. Gr. 35.661).
^ Athenaeus, 13.4 with
Herodorus as the authority;
Diodorus Siculus , 4.29.3,
f.n. 51 .
^
Apollodorus ,
2.4.10 ;
Diodorus Siculus , 4.29.3;
Tzetzes , Chiliades
2.224 .
^
Apollodorus ,
2.4.10 ;
Diodorus Siculus , 4.29.3
^
Apollodorus ,
2.7.8 .
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