Stilbe

{{Short description|Mythical character}}

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Stilbe ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|s|t|ɪ|l|b|iː}}; Ancient Greek: Στίλβη, Stílbē, "glittering", "gleaming"{{Cite web |date= |title=Definition of ASTILBE |url=https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/astilbe |access-date=2023-11-21 |website=www.merriam-webster.com |language=en}}) in Greek mythology may refer to the following personages:

• Stilbe, mother of Callisto by Ceteus.Scholia on Euripides, Orestes 1646{{Cite book|last=Fowler, Robert L.|title=Early Greek Mythography: Volume II Commentary|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2013|isbn=978-0-19-814741-1|location=Great Clarendon Street, Oxford, OX2 6DP, United Kingdom|pages=107}}
• Stilbe, a nymph, daughter of the river god Peneus and the Naiad Creusa. She bore Apollo twin sons, Centaurus, ancestor of the Centaurs, and Lapithus, ancestor of the Lapiths.Diodorus Siculus, [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/4D*.html#69.1 4.69.1]; Scholia on Apollonius Rhodius, 1.40 In another version of the myth, Centaurus was instead the son of Ixion and Nephele.Hyginus, Fabulae [https://topostext.org/work/206#62 62]. Aineus, father of Cyzicus, was also said to have been a son of Apollo and Stilbe.Scholia on Apollonius Rhodius, 1.948 By Cychreus, she became mother of the nymph Chariclo, wife of Chiron.M. Grant and J. Hazel, Who's Who in Greek Mythology, David McKay & Co Inc, 1979
• Stilbe, daughter of Eosphoros and a possible mother of Autolycus by Hermes.Scholia on Homer, Iliad 10.266