Xanthe (mythology)
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In Greek mythology, Xanthe (/ˈzænθiː/; Ancient Greek: Ξανθή or Ξάνθη Xanthê means 'blond-haired'[1]) or Xantho may refer to the following divinity and women:
- Xanthe, one of the 3,000 Oceanids, water-nymph daughters of the Titans Oceanus and his sister-wife Tethys.[2]
- Xantho, one of the 50 Nereids, sea-nymph daughters of the 'Old Man of the Sea' Nereus and the Oceanid Doris.[3][1]
- Xanthe, wife of Asclepius in the Messenian version of the story. Machaon was her son.[4]
- Xanthe, one of the Amazons.[5]
- Xantho, one of the maenads named in a vase painting.[6]
Notes
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- ↑ Hesiod, Theogony 356; Virgil, Georgics 4.336
- ↑ Hyginus, Fabulae Preface
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- ↑ Hyginus, Fabulae 163 "AMAZONS: Ocyale, Dioxippe, Iphinome, Xanthe, Hippothoe, Otrere, Antioche, Laomache, Glauce, Agave, Theseis, Hippolyte, Clymene, Polydora, Penthesilea."
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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.
- Hesiod, Theogony from The Homeric Hymns and Homerica with an English Translation by Hugh G. Evelyn-White, Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1914. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
- Publius Vergilius Maro, Bucolics, Aeneid, and Georgics of Vergil. J. B. Greenough. Boston. Ginn & Co. 1900. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
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