Oenoe (mythology)

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In Greek mythology, the name Oenoe or Oinoe (Οἰνόη) may refer to:

  • Oenoe, an impious Pygmy woman, wife of Nicodamas and mother of Mopsus. She was changed by Hera into a crane because of her impiety; Hera also made the Pygmies start a war against cranes. Oenoe, missing her son, would still come near the house where he lived, which caused the war to go on and on.[1] This Oenoe is otherwise known as Gerana.
  • Oenoe, an Arcadian nymph, one of the nurses of infant Zeus.[3] She is probably the same as Oenoe, possible mother of Pan by Aether,[4] and Oeneis, also a possible mother of Pan, this time by Zeus.[5]
  • Oenoe or Oenoie, Naiad nymph of the homonymous island, mother of Sicinus by Thoas.[6]

References

  1. ↑ Antoninus Liberalis, Metamorphoses, 16
  2. ↑ Pausanias, Description of Greece, 1. 33. 8
  3. ↑ Pausanias, Description of Greece, 8. 47. 3
  4. ↑ Scholia on Euripides, Rhesus, 36
  5. ↑ Scholia on Theocritus, Idyll 1. 3
  6. ↑ Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 1. 620 ff with scholia on 1. 623
  7. ↑ Nonnus, Dionysiaca, 29. 253
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