Rhoeteia
In Greek mythology, Rhoeteia (Ancient Greek: Ῥοιτείαa Rhoiteia) was the name which can be attributed to two distinct women who gave their name to the Trojan promontory of Rhoeteium.Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. [https://topostext.org/work/241#R547.7 Rhoiteion] These two might be related by blood.
- Rhoeteia, a Thracian princess as daughter of the King Sithon and the naiad Achiroe.Tzetzes on Lycophron, 583 & 1161 She was a sister of Pallene.Conon, Narrations 10
- Rhoiteia, a daughter of the sea-god Proteus.Scholia on Apollonius of Rhodes, 1.929 (ed. Wendel) Her possible mother was princess Torone (Chrysonoe), daughter of King Cleitus of Sithonia and Pallene, the sister of the above Rhoeteia.
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References
- Conon, Fifty Narrations, surviving as one-paragraph summaries in the Bibliotheca (Library) of Photius, Patriarch of Constantinople translated from the Greek by Brady Kiesling. [https://topostext.org/work/489 Online version at the Topos Text Project.]
- 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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