Eunosta
Eunosta or Eunoste ( ancient Greek Εὐνόστα; Εὐνόστη ) is a nymph of Greek mythology .
She is the foster mother of the hero Eunostus from Tanagra , who was named after her. Except for Plutarch , who reproduces the poet Myrtis , there is no literary evidence of her.
literature
- Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll : Eunoste . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,1, Leipzig 1886, column 1405 ( digitized version ).
- Otto Waser : Eunosta. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume VI, 1, Stuttgart 1907, Sp. 1133 ( digitized version ).
Remarks
- ^ Myrtis in Plutarch, Quaestiones Graecae 40.