Euboia (daughter of Asterion)
Euboia ( Greek Εὔβοια ) is a naiad of Greek mythology .
According to Pausanias , Euboia is a daughter of the river god Asterion and, together with her sisters Akraia and Prosymna, the nurse of the goddess Hera . The hill on which the Heraion of Argos is located is named after her, the opposite hill after her sister Akraia and after Prosymna the landscape below the Heraion . As Hera's wet nurse, she is also mentioned in the Etymologicum magnum and Plutarch .
literature
- Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher: Euboia 1) and 5) . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1.1, Leipzig 1886, column 1396 ( digitized version ).
- Karl Tümpel : Euboia 3) . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume VI, 1, Stuttgart 1907, Col. 857.
Web links
- Euboia in the Greek Myth Index (English)
- Asterionide in the Theoi Project (English)