Aethusa

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For the plant known as "aethusa" or "aethusa cynapium", see Fool's Parsley.

Aethusa (Gr. Αίθουσα) was in Greek mythology a daughter of Poseidon and Alcyone, who was beloved by Apollo, and bore to him Eleuther.[1][2][3]

By extension, the word aethusa was used as an epithet for a portico that was open to the sun, that is, Apollo.[4]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus), iii. 10. § 3
  2. ^ Pausanias, ix. 20. ,§ 2
  3. ^ Schmitz, Leonhard (1870), “Aethusa”, in Smith, William, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. 1, Boston, MA, pp. 51 
  4. ^ Jebb, Richard Claverhouse (1887). Homer: An Introduction to the Iliad and the Odyssey. Glasgow: James Maclehose and Sons. 

This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology by William Smith (1870).