Aethusa

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]

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

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. 1. Boston, MA. pp. 51. http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0060.html 
  4. ^ Jebb, Richard Claverhouse (1887). Homer: An Introduction to the Iliad and the Odyssey. Glasgow: James Maclehose and Sons. http://books.google.com/?id=S9MfAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA58&dq=aethusa#PPA59,M1. 

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