Actaea (Greek myth)

In Greek mythology, Actaea (/ækˈtiːə/; Ancient Greek: Ἁκταία, from ἁκτή "seashore") may refer to the following figures:

• Actaea, one of the Nereids[1][2][3]
• Actaea, one of the Danaïdes, daughter of Danaus and Pieria. She married Periphas, son of Aegyptus.[4]
• Actaea, the former name of Attica. It was renamed in honour of Atthis, daughter of Cranaus.[5]

Actaea, the Nymph of the Shore by Frederic Leighton (1853-1858)

Notes

1. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 1.2.7
2. Hesiod, Theogony 240
3. Hyginus, Fabulae Preface
4. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 2.1.5
5. Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 1.2.7

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.
• 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.