Polydora
{{Short description|Ancient Greek female name}}
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{{Greek deities (water)}}
Polydora ({{IPAc-en|ˌ|p|ɒ|l|ᵻ|ˈ|d|ɔːr|ə}}; {{langx|grc|Πολυδώρᾱ}} in Attic and {{lang|grc|Πολυδώρη}} in Ionic, means 'many-gifts' or 'the shapely'{{Cite book|last=Bane|first=Theresa|title=Encyclopedia of Fairies in World Folklore and Mythology|publisher=McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers|year=2013|isbn=9780786471119|page=279}}) was the name of several characters in Greek mythology:
- Polydora, the 'handsome' Oceanid, one of the 3,000 water-nymph daughters of the Titans Oceanus and his sister-spouse Tethys.{{Cite book|last=Kerényi|first=Carl|title=The Gods of the Greeks|publisher=Thames and Hudson|year=1951|location=London|pages=41}}Hesiod, Theogony 354
- Polydora, a nymph and one of the 50 Danaïdes, daughter of King Danaus. She was the mother of King Dryops of Oeta, by the river-gods SpercheusAntoninus Liberalis, [https://topostext.org/work/216#32 32] or Peneus.Scholiast on Apollonius Rhodius, 1.1212
- Polydora, wife of Aphareus of Messenia and thus, the possible mother of his children, Idas, Lynceus and Peisus.Scholia on Apollonius Rhodius, 1.152 with a reference to Peisander for Polydora In some accounts, the consort of Aphareus was called AreneApollodorus, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+3.10.3&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:book=3:chapter=10&highlight=arene 3.10.3] or Laocoosa.Theocritus, Idyll 22.206; Scholia on Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.152, with a reference to Theocritus for Laocoosa
- Polydora, daughter of Peleus and Antigone, daughter of King Eurytion of Phthia.Apollodorus, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+3.13.4&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:book=3:chapter=13&highlight=Polydora 3.13.4]; Eustathius on Homer, p. 321 She married Borus, son of Perieres, who wooed her with large dowry, but regardless of this, Polydora became the mother of Menesthius by Spercheios.Homer, Iliad 16.177
- Polydora, daughter of Perieres and wife of Peleus. In some accounts, she became the mother of Menesthius by Spercheus.Apollodorus, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+3.13.4&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:book=3:chapter=13&highlight=Polydora 3.13.4]
- Polydora, daughter of Meleager and Cleopatra. She was married to Protesilaus, and after his death she was so affected by grief that she took her own life.Pausanias, [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Paus.+4.2.7&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0160:chapter=&highlight=Polydora 4.2.7]
- Polydora, one of the Amazons.Hyginus, Fabulae [https://topostext.org/work/206#163 163]
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Bibliography
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