Actaea (Greek myth)
In Greek mythology, Actaea (Ancient Greek: Ἁκταία, from ἁκτή "seashore") may refer to the following figures:
- Actaea, one of the Nereids[1][2][3]
- Actaea, one of the Danaïdes, daughter of Danaus and Pieria. She married Periphas, son of Aegyptus.[4]
- Actaea, the former name of Attica. It was renamed in honour of Atthis, daughter of Cranaus.[5]
Actaea, the Nymph of the Shore by Frederic Leighton (1853-1858)
Notes
- Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 1.2.7
- Hesiod, Theogony 240
- Hyginus, Fabulae Preface
- Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 2.1.5
- Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 1.2.7
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References
- Gaius Julius Hyginus, Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
- 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.
- 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. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
- Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Pseudo-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. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
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