Parthenope (mythology)
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In Greek mythology, Parthenope ({{langx|grc|Παρθενόπη}} means "maiden-voiced") may refer to the following personages:
- Parthenope, mother of Europa and Thraike by Oceanus, Titan of the great world-encircling river.Tzetzes ad Lycophron, [https://archive.org/details/isaakioukaiiann00mlgoog/page/864/mode/1up?view=theater 894]; Andron of Halicarnassus [https://books.google.com/books?id=j0nRE4C2WBgC&pg=PA42 fr. 7 Fowler] = FGrHist 10 F 7 (Fowler 2000, [https://books.google.com/books?id=j0nRE4C2WBgC&pg=PA42 p. 42]; Fowler 2013, [https://books.google.com/books?id=scd8AQAAQBAJ&pg=PA13 p. 13]; Bouzek and Graninger, [https://books.google.com/books?id=cMcvCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA12 p. 12]. Fowler 2013, p. 15, calls Parthenope, "elsewhere variously a Siren, a daughter of Ankaios, and a paramour of Herakles" an ad hoc invention.)
- Parthenope, one of the Sirens.Strabo, 5.4.7
- Parthenope, an Arcadian princess as daughter of King Stymphalus. She consorted with Heracles and had by him a son Everes.{{Cite web |title=Apollodorus, Library, book 2, chapter 7, section 8 |url=https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+2.7.8&fromdoc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0022#note1 |access-date=2022-11-23 |website=www.perseus.tufts.edu}}
- Parthenope, a Lelegian princess as daughter of King Ancaeus of Samos and Samia, daughter of Meander, one of the river gods. She consorted with Apollo and had a son Lycomedes.{{Cite web |title=Pausanias, Description of Greece, Achaia, chapter 4, section 1 |url=http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0525.tlg001.perseus-eng1:7.4.1 |access-date=2022-11-23 |website=www.perseus.tufts.edu}}
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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}}. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0022 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.] [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0021 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. {{ISBN|0-674-99328-4}}. [https://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. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0159 Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library].
- Robert L. Fowler, Early Greek Mythography. Volume 2: Commentary. Oxford University Press. 2013.
- Strabo, The Geography of Strabo. Edition by H.L. Jones. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0198%3Abook%3D6%3Achapter%3D1%3Asection%3D1 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.]
- Strabo, Geographica edited by A. Meineke. Leipzig: Teubner. 1877. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0197 Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.]
- Tzetzes, John, Lycophronis Alexandra. Vol. II: Scholia Continens, edited by Eduard Scheer, Berlin, Weidmann, 1881. [https://archive.org/details/lycophronisalexa02lycouoft/page/n5/mode/2up?view=theater Internet Archive].
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