In Greek mythology, Aethusa (Ancient Greek: Αἵθουσα) was a daughter of Poseidon and the Pleiad Alcyone, daughter of Atlas.[1][2][3] She was loved by Apollo and bore to him Eleuther[4][5] and Linus.[3][6] Through either of the latter two, Aethusa became the grandmother of Pierus, father of Oeagrus, father of the musician Orpheus. Because of this genealogical fact, she was usually identified as a Thracian.[1]
The word aethusa was used as an epithet for a portico that was open to the sun, that is, Apollo.[7]
According to Pliny's Naturalis Historia, Aethusa is also the eponym of the Italian island which is now called Linosa.
Notes
- ^ a b Suda, s.v. Homer
- ^ Schmitz, Leonhard (1870). "Aethusa". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. 1. Boston, MA. p. 51.
- ^ a b Of the Origin of Homer and Hesiod and their Contest, Fragment 1, 314
- ^ Pseudo-Apollodorus. Bibliotheca, 3.10.3
- ^ Pausanias, 9. 20. ,§ 2
- ^ Suda Encyclopedia s.v. Homer.
- ^ Jebb, Richard Claverhouse (1887). Homer: An Introduction to the Iliad and the Odyssey. Glasgow: James Maclehose and Sons. p. 58.
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References
- 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. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
- Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Pseudo-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. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
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