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In
Greek mythology , Maera or Maira (
Ancient Greek : Μαῖρα means "the sparkler") may refer to the following personages:
Humans
Maera or Mera,
[1] one of the 50
Nereids , sea-
nymph daughters of the "
Old Man of the Sea "
Nereus and the
Oceanid
Doris .
[2] She and her other sisters appear to
Thetis when she cries out in sympathy for the grief of
Achilles at the slaying of his friend
Patroclus .
[3]
Maera, daughter of
Atlas and ancestor of the below Maera.
[4] She was the mother by
Tegeates , of
Leimon ,
Scephrus ,
Archedius ,
Gortys , and
Cydon .
[5]
Maera, descendant of the above Maera.
[6]
Maera, daughter of
Proetus , son of
Thersander , son of
Sisyphus , was still a maid when she died.
[7] Otherwise, she was the mother of
Locrus by
Zeus .
[8] In some accounts, Locrus' mother was
Megaclite , daughter of
Macareus .
[9] Maera's shade appeared to Odysseus when the hero visited the underworld.
[10]
Maera, one of the
Erasinides ,
Argive
naiad daughters of the
river-god
Erasinus . She and her sisters,
Anchiroe ,
Byze and
Melite , received
Britomartis .
[11]
Maera, priestess of
Aphrodite , and mother of two sons killed by
Tydeus during the war of the Seven Against Thebes.
[12]
Animal
Notes
^
Hyginus , Fabulae Preface (Latin ed. Scheffero)
^
Homer ,
Iliad 18.48
^ Homer, Iliad
18.39-51
^
Pausanias , 8.12.7
^ Pausanias, 8.48.6 & 8.53.2-4
^ Pausanias, 8.12.7
^ Pausanias, 10.30.5
^
Eustathius ad Homer, p. 1688
^
Pseudo-Clement ,
Recognitions 10.21
^ Homer,
Odyssey 11.326
^
Antoninus Liberalis ,
40
^
Statius ,
Thebaid 8.477
^
Ovid ,
Metamorphoses 13.399-428
^
Apollodorus , 3.14.7
References
Antoninus Liberalis , The Metamorphoses of Antoninus Liberalis translated by Francis Celoria (Routledge 1992).
Online version at the Topos Text Project.
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 .
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.
Homer ,
The Iliad with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, Ph.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924.
ISBN
978-0674995796 .
Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
Homer, Homeri Opera in five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920.
ISBN
978-0198145318 .
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 .
Publius Ovidius Naso , Metamorphoses translated by Brookes More (1859-1942). Boston, Cornhill Publishing Co. 1922.
Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
Publius Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses. Hugo Magnus. Gotha (Germany). Friedr. Andr. Perthes. 1892.
Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library .
Publius Papinius Statius , The Thebaid translated by John Henry Mozley. Loeb Classical Library Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1928.
Online version at the Topos Text Project.
Publius Papinius Statius, The Thebaid. Vol I-II . John Henry Mozley. London: William Heinemann; New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1928.
Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
Further reading
Aken, Dr. A.R.A. van. (1961). Elseviers Mythologische Encyclopedie . Amsterdam: Elsevier.
Bartelink, Dr. G.J.M. (1988). Prisma van de mythologie . Utrecht: Het Spectrum.
Völcker, K. H. W. (1824). Die Mythologie Des Japetischen Geschlechtes , p. 114.