Budeia

In Greek mythology, the name Budeia or Budea /bjuːˈdiːə/ (Ancient Greek: Βούδεια Boúdeia, "oxen-yoker") may refer to:

• Budeia, a surname of Athena in Thessaly.[1][2][3][4]
• Budeia or Buzyge (Βουζύγη, same meaning as Boudeia), daughter of Lycus. She was the wife of the Orchomenian Clymenus and mother of his children, including Erginus.[5][6][7]

For the town of ancient Thessaly, see Boudeia.

Notes

1. Eustathius on Homer, 1076. 27
2. Stephanus of Byzantium, s. v. Boudeia
3. Lycophron, Alexandra 359 with Tzetzes' commentary
4. Trümpy 1994
5. Eustathius on Homer, 1076. 26
6. Scholia on Iliad, 16. 572
7. Scholia on Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 1. 185

References

• Smith, William (ed.) Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology
• 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.
• Trümpy, Catherine (1994) 'Athena Boudeia', Z. Papyrologie Epigraphik 100, 407-412.