Bura (Greek mythology)

In Greek mythology, Bura (/ˈbjʊərə/) (Ancient Greek: Βούρα) was a daughter of Ion, son of Xuthus, and Helice. She was the eponym of the city Boura in Achaea.[1][2]

She is possibly the same as Bura, mother of Atrax by Peneus.[3]

Notes

1. Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 7.25.8
2. Stephanus of Byzantium, Ethnica s.v. Boura
3. Stephanus of Byzantium, Ethnica s.v. Atrax

References

• Pausanias, Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. ISBN 0-674-99328-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
• Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Stephanus of Byzantium, Stephani Byzantii Ethnicorum quae supersunt, edited by August Meineike (1790-1870), published 1849. A few entries from this important ancient handbook of place names have been translated by Brady Kiesling. Online version at the Topos Text Project.