Euboea (mythology)

Euboea (/juːˈbiːə/; Ancient Greek: Εὔβοια) was the name of several women in Greek mythology.

• Euboea, one of the daughters of the river-god Asterion. She and her sisters, Acraea and Prosymna, were the nurses of Hera.[1][2]
• Euboea, a Naiad, daughter of the Boeotian river-god Asopus and of Metope.[3] Poseidon abducted her.[4] The island of Euboea was given her name.[5][6][7][8]
• Euboea, daughter of Larymnus. She and Polybus of Sicyon were possible parents of Glaucus.[9]
• Euboea, daughter of Macareus, king of Locris. She bore Apollo a son, Agreus.[10]
• Euboea, one of the fifty daughters of Thespius and Megamede. She bore Heracles a son Olympus.[11]
• Euboea, a heroine and eponym of the island of Euboea.[12][13] May be identical with one of the above.
• Euboea, mother of Triopas by Phorbas.[14]

References

1. Pausanias, Description of Greece, 2. 17. 1
2. Theoi Project - Nymphai Asterionides
3. Diodorus Siculus, Library of History, 4. 72. 1
4. Corinna, Fragment 654 (trans. Campbell)
5. Eustathius on Homer, p. 278
6. Nonnus, Dionysiaca 42. 411
7. "William Smith, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, v. 2, page 60". Archived from the original on 2011-08-07. Retrieved 2011-09-02.
8. Theoi Project - Nymphe Euboia
9. Athenaeus, Banquet of the Learned, 7. 296b (p. 329)
10. Hyginus, Fabulae, 161
11. Apollodorus. The Library, 2.7.8..
12. Strabo, Geography 10. 1. 3
13. Stephanus of Byzantium s. v. Euboia
14. Schol. ad Eurip. Or. 920