In Greek mythology, Eudora or Eudore (Ancient Greek: Εὐδώρη[1] means 'early' or 'leading'[2] or 'she of good gifts'[3]) was a name given to three nymphs:
- Eudora, one of 3,000 Oceanids, water-nymph daughters of the Titans Oceanus and his sister-spouse Tethys.[4][5]
- Eudora, the Nereid of sailing and a good fish-catch.[5] She was one of the 50 sea-nymph daughters of the 'Old Man of the Sea' Nereus and the Oceanid Doris.[6]
- Eudora, called "long-robed" in a Hesiodic fragment, was one of the Hyades, the nymphs associated with the configuration of stars known as the Hyades.[7] She was the sister of Aesyle (Phaisyle) and Ambrosia,[8] Polyxo and Coronis,[9] and Cleeia and Phaeo.[10] They were called the daughters of the Titan Atlas by either the Oceanids Aethra[11] or Pleione,[12] or of Hyas and Boeotia.[13]
Notes
edit- ^ Smith, s.v. Eudora.
- ^ Bane, p. 130.
- ^ Kerényi, Carl (1951). The Gods of the Greeks. London: Thames and Hudson. pp. 41, 64.
- ^ Hesiod, Theogony 360
- ^ a b Bane, Theresa (2013). Encyclopedia of Fairies in World Folklore and Mythology. McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers. p. 130. ISBN 9780786471119.
- ^ Hesiod, Theogony 243; Apollodorus, 1.2.7
- ^ Hyginus, De Astronomica 2.21.1, Fabulae 192; Scholium on Aratus' Phenomena = Hesiod fr. 227a Most, pp. 300, 301 = Hesiod fr. 291 MW.
- ^ Eustathius on Homer's Iliad 1156
- ^ Hyginus, De Astronomica 2.21.1 with Asclepiades as the authority
- ^ Scholium on Aratus' Phenomena = Hesiod fr. 227a Most, pp. 300, 301 = Hesiod fr. 291 MW.
- ^ Hyginus, De Astronomica 2.21.4 with Musaeus as the authority
- ^ Hyginus, Fabulae 192
- ^ Hyginus, De Astronomica 2.21.4 with Alexander as the authority
References
edit- Bane, Theresa, Encyclopedia of Fairies in World Folklore and Mythology, McFarland, 2013. ISBN 9780786471119.
- Apollodorus, The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. ISBN 0-674-99135-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
- Hesiod, Theogony, in The Homeric Hymns and Homerica with an English Translation by Hugh G. Evelyn-White, Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1914. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Hyginus, Gaius Julius, Astronomica, in The Myths of Hyginus, edited and translated by Mary A. Grant, Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 1960. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
- Hyginus, Gaius Julius, Fabulae, in The Myths of Hyginus, edited and translated by Mary A. Grant, Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 1960. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
- Kerényi, Carl, The Gods of the Greeks, Thames and Hudson, London, 1951.
- Most, G.W., Hesiod: The Shield, Catalogue of Women, Other Fragments, Loeb Classical Library, No. 503, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2007, 2018. ISBN 978-0-674-99721-9. Online version at Harvard University Press.
- Smith, William; Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London (1867). Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
