Pronoe

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Pronoe ("forethought") refers to five characters in Greek mythology.

1. Pronoe, one of the Nereids. [1]

2. Pronoe, daughter of Phorbus. She married Aetolus and bore him Pleuron and Calydon. [2]

3. Pronoe, daughter of Melampus, king of Argos, and Iphianira, daughter of Megapenthes. She was considered to be a seer. [3]

4. Pronoe, a nymph. She was the mother of the Trojan Lassus. Lassus was killed by Podalirus during the Trojan war. [4]

5. Pronoe, a naiad of a river in Lycia. She told Caunus what had happened to his sister Byblis (that she had killed himself), and persuaded him to stay with her on condition that he receive rulership of the country of Lycia or Caria. The couple had a son Aegialus who inherited the kingdom upon his father's death. [5]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Hesiod, Theogony, 240 [1]
  2. ^ Apollodorus, Library, 1.7.7 [2]
  3. ^ Diodorus Siculus, The Library of History 4.68.5 [3]
  4. ^ Quintus Smyrnaeus, The Fall of Troy, 6.497 [4]
  5. ^ Conon, Narratives (Diegeseis)
Languages