Thebe (Greek myth)

Thebe (Ancient Greek: Θήβη) is a feminine name mentioned several times in Greek mythology, in accounts that imply multiple female characters, four of whom are said to have had three cities named Thebes after them:

• Thebe, daughter of Asopus and Metope,[1][2] who was said to have consorted with Zeus.[3] Amphion and Zethus named Boeotian Thebes[4] after her because of their kinship, the twins being sons of her sister Antiope by Zeus.
• Thebe, daughter of Zeus and Iodame, given in marriage to Ogygus.[5] She was the sister of Deucalion, otherwise unknown.[6]
• Thebe, daughter of Zeus and Megacleite[7] and sister of Locrus, the man who assisted Amphion and Zethus in the building of Thebes.[8] She later on married Zethus.
• Thebe, daughter of Prometheus, and also a possible eponym of the Boeotian Thebes.[9]
• Thebe, daughter of Cilix and wife of Corybas (son of Cybele).[10]
• Thebe, eponym of Thebes, Egypt.[11] She was the daughter of either Nilus, Epaphus, Proteus, or Libys;[12] rare versions of the myth make her a consort of Zeus and mother of Aegyptus[5] or Heracles.[13]
• Thebe, daughter of the Pelasgian Adramys, the eponym of Adramyttium, or of the river god Granicus. She married Heracles, who named Hypoplacian Thebes after her.[14]
• Thebe, an Amazon
• Thebe, alternate name for the Titaness Phoebe.

See also

• Thebe (disambiguation)

Notes

1. Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 2.5.2
2. Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca historica 4.72.1
3. Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 5.22.6
4. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3.5.6
5. Tzetzes on Lycophron, 1206
6. Murray, John (1833). A Classical Manual, being a Mythological, Historical and Geographical Commentary on Pope's Homer, and Dryden's Aeneid of Virgil with a Copious Index. Albemarle Street, London. p. 8.
7. Pseudo-Clement, Recognitions 10.21
8. Eustathius ad Homer, p. 1688
9. Stephanus of Byzantium, Ethnica s.v. Thēbē
10. Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca historica 5.49.3
11. Nonnus, Dionysiaca 4.304, 5.86 & 41.270
12. Scholia on Homer, Iliad 9.383
13. John Lydus, De mensibus, 4. 67
14. Scholia on Homer, Iliad 6.396

References

• Diodorus Siculus, The Library of History translated by Charles Henry Oldfather. Twelve volumes. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1989. Vol. 3. Books 4.59–8. Online version at Bill Thayer's Web Site
• Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica. Vol 1-2. Immanel Bekker. Ludwig Dindorf. Friedrich Vogel. in aedibus B. G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1888-1890. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• 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.
• Pseudo-Clement, Recognitions from Ante-Nicene Library Volume 8, translated by Smith, Rev. Thomas. T. & T. Clark, Edinburgh. 1867. Online version at theio.com