Orithyia
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In Greek mythology, Orithyia or Oreithyia ({{IPAc-en|ɒr|ᵻ|ˈ|θ|aɪ|.|ə}};Joseph Emerson Worcester, A comprehensive dictionary of the English language, Boston, 1871, [https://books.google.com/books?id=bpkaAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA480 p. 480], rule 3, where he notes that the pronunciation of such names is not e.g. {{IPAc-en|ɒ|ˌ|r|ɪ|θ|i|ˈ|aɪ|.|ə}} "as in Walker" (see e.g. Walker and Trollope, A key to the classical pronunciation etc., London, 1830, [https://books.google.com/books?id=s2sUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA123 p. 123]) {{langx|grc|Ὠρείθυια|Ōreíthyia}}; {{langx|la|Ōrīthyia}}) was the name of the following women:
- Orithyia or Orythya,Hyginus, Fabulae Preface (Latin ed. Micyllus; Scheffero) the Nereid of raging seas{{Cite book|last=Bane|first=Theresa|title=Encyclopedia of Fairies in World Folklore and Mythology|publisher=McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers|year=2013|isbn=9780786471119|page=262}} and one of the 50 marine-nymph daughters of the 'Old Man of the Sea' Nereus and the Oceanid Doris.Homer, Iliad 18.48 She and her other sisters appear to Thetis when she cries out in sympathy for the grief of Achilles at the slaying of his lover Patroclus.Homer, Iliad [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0134%3Abook%3D18%3Acard%3D22 18.39-51]
- Orithyia, a daughter of Cecrops, wife of Makednos and mother of Europus.Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Eurōpos{{Cite web |url=http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/1216.html |title=The Ancient Library - Europus |access-date=2007-11-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070905110424/http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/1216.html |archive-date=2007-09-05 |url-status=usurped }}
- Orithyia, a daughter of Erechtheus, who was abducted by Boreas.Apollodorus, 3.15.1
- Orithyia, a nymph, called by some the grandmother of Adonis.Antoninus Liberalis, [https://topostext.org/work/216#34 34]
- Orithyia, queen of the Amazons.Apollodorus, 2.5.9
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References
- Antoninus Liberalis, The Metamorphoses of Antoninus Liberalis translated by Francis Celoria (Routledge 1992). [https://topostext.org/work/216 Online version at the Topos Text Project.]
- 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].
- 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.]
- Homer, The Iliad with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, Ph.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924. {{ISBN|978-0674995796|}}. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0134 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.]
- Homer, Homeri Opera in five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920. {{ISBN|978-0198145318|}}. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0133 Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library].
- Stephanus of Byzantium, Stephani Byzantii Ethnicorum quae supersunt, edited by August Meineike (1790–1870), published 1849. A few entries from this important ancient handbook of place names have been translated by Brady Kiesling. [https://topostext.org/work/241 Online version at the Topos Text Project.]
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