Euboia (daughter of Asopus)
Euboia ( Greek Εὔβοια ) is a nymph of Greek mythology and eponymous heroine of the island of Euboea .
As the namesake of Euboea, it is first reliably attested by Aristotle . In Eustathios of Thessalonike she is the daughter of the river god Asopos , Stephanos of Byzantium also knows her, but does not name a father. According to Nonnos of Panopolis , she is a lover of the sea god Poseidon , who was transformed into the island of Euboia by him. Sometimes she is identified with the Naiad Chalkis , daughter of Asopos and Metope , who is said to have given the Euboean city of Chalkis its name.
According to Karl Tümpel , their legend originated with the transfer of the Argive Io myth to Euboea, with which the nurses of Hera , among them Euboia , became known on the island.
literature
- Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher: Euboia 2) . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1.1, Leipzig 1886, column 1396 ( digitized version ).
- Karl Tümpel : Euboia 4) . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume VI, 1, Stuttgart 1907, Col. 857 f.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Aristotle , Fragment 105 in Strabo 10, 445. Fragmenta historicorum graecorum II 141.
- ↑ a b Eustathios of Thessalonike , Commentary on Homer 278f.
- ↑ Nonnos of Panopolis 42, 411.