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Ephyra (mythology)

January 01, 1970

In Greek mythology, Ephyra (Ancient Greek: Ἐφύρα, romanized: Ephýra) or Ephyre may refer to two different deities:

Notes edit

  1. ^ Hyginus, Fabulae 275; Scholiast on Apollonius of Rhodes as cited in Simonides, fr. 596
  2. ^ Bane, Theresa (2013). Encyclopedia of Fairies in World Folklore and Mythology. McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers. p. 127. ISBN 9780786471119.
  3. ^ Scholiast on Apollonius of Rhodes, 4.1212
  4. ^ Scholiast on Apollonius of Rhodes, 4.1212 as cited in Simonides, fr. 596
  5. ^ Eumelus, fr. 1 Fowler (Fowler 2013, p. 13)
  6. ^ Pausanias, 2.1.1 with Eumelus in his Korinthian History as the authority
  7. ^ Epimenides in scholia on Apollonius Rhodius, 3.242
  8. ^ Hyginus, Fabulae Preface
  9. ^ Bane, Theresa (2013). Encyclopedia of Fairies in World Folklore and Mythology. McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers. p. 127. ISBN 9780786471119.
  10. ^ Virgil, Georgics 4.343
  11. ^ This was definitely a misinterpretation of Hyginus in Virgil's Georgics 4.343 which suggests that Ephyra was a naiad, more likely an Oceanides, rather than a Nereid.

References edit

  • Fowler, Robert L., Early Greek Mythography. Volume 2: Commentary. Oxford University Press. 2013.
  • 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.
  • 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 Vergilius Maro, Bucolics, Aeneid, and Georgics of Vergil. J. B. Greenough. Boston. Ginn & Co. 1900. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.


January 01, 1970
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