Protogeneia

For the asteroid, see 147 Protogeneia.

Protogeneia (Ancient Greek: Πρωτογένεια "the firstborn"), in Greek mythology, may refer to:

Protogeneia, a daughter of Deucalion and Pyrrha, progenitors in Greek mythology.^[1] She was married to Locrus, but had no children; Zeus, however, who carried her off, became by her, on mount Maenalus in Arcadia, the father of Opus, Aethlius and Aetolus.^[2] According to others she was not the mother, but a daughter of Opus.^[3] Endymion also is called a son of Protogeneia.^[4]

Protogeneia, a daughter of Calydon and Aeolia. With Ares, she was mother to Oxylus of Aetolia.^[5]

Protogeneia, one of the daughters of Erechtheus and Praxithea. She and her sister Pandora committed suicide when Erechtheus sacrificed Chthonia, another sister of theirs.^[6]

References

^ Apollodorus, Bibliotheca, 1. 7. § 2.
^ Scholia on Pindar, Olympian Ode 9. 85; Scholia on Apollonius Rhodius 4. 1780
^ Scholia on Pindar, Olympian Ode 9. 85
^ Conon, Narrations 14
^ Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 1. 7. §7.
^ Suda s. v. παρθένοι

Sources

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