Philyra (mythology)

Philyra or Phillyra (/ˈfɪlərə/: Ancient Greek: Φιλύρα means "linden-tree") is the name of three distinct characters in Greek mythology.

• Philyra, an Oceanid and mother by Cronus of Chiron.[1]
• Philyra, one of the names given to the wife of Nauplius, who was the father of Palamedes, Oiax and Nausimedon. The mythographer Apollodorus reports that, in the Nostoi (Returns), an early epic from the Trojan cycle of poems about the Trojan War, Nauplius' wife was Philyra, and that according to Cercops his wife was Hesione, but that according to the "tragic poets" his wife was Clymene.[2]
• Philyra or Phillyra, daughter of the river Asopus, and the mother of Hypseus by Peneius.[3] The same source points out that phillyra’s real name is Creusa is given instead of her.

Notes

1. Hyginus, Fabulae 138
2. Hard, p. 236; Gantz, p. 604; Apollodorus, 2.1.5, 3.2.2, E.6.8; Dictys Cretensis, 1.1, 5.2.
3. Scholia on Pindar, Pythian Ode 9. 27a

References

• Apollodorus, 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.
• Gantz, Timothy, Early Greek Myth: A Guide to Literary and Artistic Sources, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996, Two volumes: ISBN 978-0-8018-5360-9 (Vol. 1), ISBN 978-0-8018-5362-3 (Vol. 2).
• Hard, Robin, The Routledge Handbook of Greek Mythology: Based on H.J. Rose's "Handbook of Greek Mythology", Psychology Press, 2004, ISBN 9780415186360. Google Books.