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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, eponym of
Thebes, Egypt .
[1] She was the daughter of either
Nilus ,
Proteus ,
[2] or
Libys , son of
Epirus .[
citation needed ] In another account, Thebe was called the daughter of
Zeus and
Iodame and was given in marriage to
Ogygus by her father after
Deucalion’s flood.
[3] She was the sister of another
Deucalion .
[4] One rare version of the myth makes Thebe a consort of Zeus and mother of
Aegyptus
[5] and/or Heracles.
[6]
Thebe, daughter of
Asopus
[2] and
Metope ,
[7] who was said to have consorted with
Zeus .
[8]
Amphion and
Zethus named
Boeotian Thebes
[9] after her because of their kinship, the twins being sons of her sister
Antiope by Zeus.
Egyptian Thebes was also named after her.
[2]
Thebe, daughter of Zeus and
Megacleite
[10] and sister of
Locrus , the man who assisted Amphion and Zethus in the building of Thebes.
[11] She later on married Zethus.
Thebe, daughter of
Prometheus , and also a possible
eponym of the Boeotian Thebes.
[12]
Thebe, daughter of
Cilix
[13] and thus, sister of
Thasus .
[14] By
Corybas ,
[13] son of
Cybele , she was the possible mother of
Ida who begat
Minos II by King
Lycastus of
Crete .
[15] This Thebe is possibly the eponym of
Cilician Thebe .
Thebe, daughter of the
Pelasgian
Adramys , the eponym of
Adramyttium
[16] or of the
river god
Granicus [
citation needed ] . She married Heracles, who named
Hypoplacian Thebes after her.
[16]
Thebe, an
Amazon . [
citation needed ]
Thebe, alternate name for the Titaness
Phoebe .[
citation needed ]
See also
Notes
^
Nonnus , 4.304, 5.86 & 41.270
^
a
b
c
Scholia ad
Homer ,
Iliad
9.383
^
Tzetzes on
Lycophron ,
1206
(Gk text) with the historian Lycus as the authority
^ 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.
^ Tzetzes ad Lycophron,
1206
(Gk text)
^
John Lydus , De mensibus
4.67
^
Diodorus Siculus ,
4.72.1 ;
Pausanias ,
2.5.2
^ Pausanias,
5.22.6
^
Apollodorus ,
3.5.6
^
Pseudo-Clement , Recognitions 10.21
^ Eustathius ad
Homer , p. 1688
^
Stephanus of Byzantium , s.v.
Thēbē (Θήβη)
^
a
b Diodorus Siculus,
5.49.3
^ Apollodorus,
3.1.1 with
Pherecydes as the authority
^ Diodorus Siculus,
4.60.3 .
^
a
b Scholia on Homer, Iliad
6.397
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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