Asia (Greek myth)
{{Short description|Deities in Greek mythology}}
{{Other uses|Asia (disambiguation)}}
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In Greek mythology, Asia{{Cite book|last=Bell|first=Robert E.|title=Women of Classical Mythology: A Biographical Dictionary|publisher=ABC-CLIO|year=1991|isbn=9780874365818|pages=74}} ({{Langx|grc|Ἀσία}}) may refer to these deities:
- Asia, one of the 3,000 Oceanides, daughter of the Titans Oceanus and Tethys.Apollodorus, [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0548.tlg001.perseus-eng1:1.2.2 1.2.2].
- Asia, one of the 50 Nereids, sea-nymph daughters of the 'Old Man of the Sea' Nereus and the Oceanid Doris.Hyginus, Fabulae [https://topostext.org/work/206#p.7 Preface]. She was counted in the train of Cyrene and may be the same to the above Asia.Virgil, Georgics [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:latinLit:phi0690.phi002.perseus-eng1:4.333-4.386 4.343]
- Asia, a surname of Athena in Colchis. Her worship was believed to have been brought from there by Castor and Polydeuces to Laconia, where a temple was built to her at Las.Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 3.24.5
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References
- 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. ISBN 0-674-99135-4. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0022 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.] [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0021 Greek text available from the same website].
- Bell, Robert E., Women of Classical Mythology: A Biographical Dictionary. ABC-Clio. 1991. {{ISBN|9780874365818|0874365813}}.
- Gaius Julius Hyginus, Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. [https://topostext.org/work/206 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}}. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0160 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library]
- Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0159 Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library].
- Publius Vergilius Maro, Bucolics, Aeneid, and Georgics of Vergil. J. B. Greenough. Boston. Ginn & Co. 1900. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0058 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library].
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