Themisto (mythology)
In Greek mythology, Themisto (/θəˈmɪstoʊ/; Ancient Greek: Θεμιστώ, romanized: Themistṓ, lit. 'belonging to the law or customs'[1]) may refer to the following women:
- Themisto, one of the 50 Nereids, marine-nymph daughter of the sea divinities Nereus and the Oceanid Doris.[2][3]
- Themisto, daughter of the river god Inachus and the mother of Arcas by Zeus.[4] In other accounts, the usual birth mother of Arcas was called Callisto, daughter of Lycaon or else Megisto, daughter of Ceteus[5], both women were members of the Arcadian royal family.
- Themisto, daughter of the Hyperborean king Zabius, mother of Galeos by Apollo.[6]
- Themisto, the third and last wife of Athamas.[7]
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Notes
- "User-submitted name Themisto - Behind the Name". www.behindthename.com. Retrieved 2021-01-10.
- Hesiod, Theogony 240ff
- Kerényi, Carl (1951). The Gods of the Greeks. London: Thames and Hudson. p. 65.
- Eustathius ad Homer, Iliad p. 300; Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Arcadia (Ἀρκαδία); Pseudo-Clement, Recognitions 10.21
- Hyginus, De astronomia 2.1.6, and 2.6.2, with Araethus of Tegea as authority
- Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Galeōtai
- Apollodorus, 1.9.2
References
- 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 from 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. Greek text available from the same website.
- Kerényi, Carl, The Gods of the Greeks, Thames and Hudson, London, 1951.
- Pseudo-Clement, Recognitions from Ante-Nicene Library Volume 8, translated by Smith, Rev. Thomas. T. & T. Clark, Edinburgh. 1867. Online version at theio.com
- 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.
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