Thebe (Greek myth)

{{Greek myth (nymph)}}Thebe ({{langx|grc|Θήβη}}) is a feminine name mentioned several times in Greek mythology, in accounts that imply multiple female characters, four of whom are said to have had three cities named Thebes after them:

• Thebe, eponym of Thebes, Egypt.Nonnus, 4.304, 5.86 & 41.270 She was the daughter of either Nilus, Proteus,Scholia ad Homer, Iliad 9.383 or Libys, son of Epirus.{{Citation needed|date=July 2022}} In another account, Thebe was called the daughter of Zeus and Iodame and was given in marriage to Ogygus by her father after Deucalion’s flood.Tzetzes on Lycophron, [https://archive.org/details/isaakioukaiiann00mlgoog/page/951/mode/1up?view=theater 1206] with the historian Lycus as the authority She was the sister of another Deucalion.{{Cite book |last=Murray |first=John |url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_u0gQAAAAIAAJ/page/8/mode/1up |title=A Classical Manual, being a Mythological, Historical and Geographical Commentary on Pope's Homer, and Dryden's Aeneid of Virgil with a Copious Index |year=1833 |location=Albemarle Street, London |pages=8}} One rare version of the myth makes Thebe a consort of Zeus and mother of AegyptusTzetzes ad Lycophron, [https://archive.org/details/isaakioukaiiann00mlgoog/page/951/mode/1up?view=theater 1206]. and/or Heracles.John Lydus, De mensibus 4.67
• Thebe, daughter of Asopus and Metope,Diodorus Siculus, [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/4D*.html#72.1 4.72.1]; Pausanias, [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Paus.+2.5.2&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0160:chapter=&highlight=Thebe 2.5.2] who was said to have consorted with Zeus.Pausanias, [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Paus.+5.22.6&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0160:chapter=&highlight=Thebe 5.22.6] Amphion and Zethus named Boeotian Thebes after her{{citation needed|date=March 2025}} because of their kinship, the twins being sons of her sister Antiope by Zeus. Egyptian Thebes was also named after her.
• Thebe, daughter of Zeus and MegacleitePseudo-Clement, Recognitions 10.21 and sister of Locrus, the man who assisted Amphion and Zethus in the building of Thebes.Eustathius ad Homer, p. 1688 She later on married Zethus and the Boeotian Thebes was named after her.Apollodorus, [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+3.5.6&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:chapter=&highlight=Thebe 3.5.6]
• Thebe, daughter of Prometheus, and also a possible eponym of the Boeotian Thebes.Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. [https://topostext.org/work/241#Th312.15 Thēbē (Θήβη)]
• Thebe, daughter of Cilix and thus, sister of Thasus.Apollodorus, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+3.1.1&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:book=3:chapter=1&highlight=Thasus 3.1.1] with Pherecydes as the authority By Corybas,Diodorus Siculus, [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/5D*.html#49.3 5.49.3] son of Cybele, she was the possible mother of Ida who begat Minos II by King Lycastus of Crete.Diodorus Siculus, [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/4D*.html#60 4.60.3]. This Thebe is possibly the eponym of Cilician Thebe.
• Thebe, daughter of the Pelasgian Adramys, the eponym of Adramyttium or of the river god Granicus{{Citation needed|date=July 2022}}. She married Heracles, who named Hypoplacian Thebes after her.Scholia on Homer, Iliad 6.397
• Thebe, an Amazon. {{Citation needed|date=July 2022}}
• Thebe, alternate name for the Titaness Phoebe.{{Citation needed|date=July 2022}}