Parthenos (mythology)
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In Greek mythology, the name Parthenos (Παρθένος "virgin") may refer to:
- Daughter of Staphylus and Chrysothemis, sister of Rhoeo and Molpadia (Hemithea). After a suicide attempt she and Hemithea were carried by Apollo to Chersonesus, whereupon Parthenos became a local goddess in Bubastus.[1] An obscure goddess known as Parthenos was actually worshipped throughout Chersonesus in historical times[2][3]
- Daughter of Apollo and Chrysothemis, who died a maiden and was placed among the stars as the constellation Virgo.[4] Her story might be a variant for that of the precedent.
- An epithet of the virgin goddesses Athena[5] and Artemis,[6] also of Hera.[7] In poetical texts, occurs as an occasional epithet of other female divinities, such as Adrasteia, Dike, Hebe, Hecate, Persephone, Nemesis, Iris.
References
- ↑ Diodorus Siculus, Library of History, 5. 62. 3 - 4
- ↑ Strabo, Geography, 7. 4. 2
- ↑ Stephanus of Byzantium s. v. Parthenou hieron
- ↑ Hyginus, Poetical Astronomy, 2. 25
- ↑ Pausanias, Description of Greece, 5. 11. 10; 10. 34. 8; see Athena Parthenos
- ↑ Homeric Hymn 27. 1; Euripides, Trojan Women, 551
- ↑ Scholia on Pindar, Olympian Ode 6. 149; Stephanus of Byzantium s. v. Hermion
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