Thebe
Thebe is a female name mentioned several times in Greek mythology, in accounts that imply multiple female characters, three of whom are said to have had two cities named Thebes after them:
- Thebe, daughter of Asopus and Metope,[1][2] who became wife of Zethus, and gave her name to Boeotian Thebes[3] -- She is also said to have consorted with Zeus.[4]
- Thebe, daughter of Zeus and Iodame, given in marriage to Ogygus[5]
- Thebe, daughter of Prometheus and also a possible eponym of the Boeotian Thebes[6]
- Thebe, daughter of Cilix and wife of Corybas (son of Cybele)[7]
- Thebe, eponym of Thebes, Egypt[8] -- She was the daughter of either Nilus, Epaphus, Proteus, or Libys;[9] rare versions of the myth make her a consort of Zeus and mother of Aegyptus[5] or Heracles.[10]
- Thebe, daughter of Zeus and Megacleite, sister of Locrus[11]
- Thebe, an Amazon
- Thebe, alternate name for the Titaness Phoebe
References
- ^ Diodorus Siculus, Library of History, 4. 72. 1
- ^ Pausanias, Description of Greece, 2. 5. 2
- ^ Apollodorus, Bibliotheca, 3. 5. 6
- ^ Pausanias, Description of Greece 5. 22. 6
- ^ a b Tzetzes on Lycophron, 1206
- ^ Stephanus of Byzantium s. v. Thēbē
- ^ Diodorus Siculus, Library of History, 5. 49. 3
- ^ Nonnus, Dionysiaca, 4. 304; 5. 86; 41. 270
- ^ Scholia on Homer, Iliad, 9. 383
- ^ John Lydus, De mensibus, 4. 67
- ^ Clement of Alexandria, Recognitions, 10. 21