Libya (mythology)

Libya ( ancient Greek Λιβύα or Λιβύη Libýa, Libýē , Latin Libya ) is a figure in Greek mythology .

She is a daughter of Epaphos and Memphis and thus a granddaughter of Io and is the mother of Belos .

It gave its name to Libya , the ancient name of North Africa between Egypt , Aithiopia and the Atlantic , from which the name of the modern state of Libya is derived again.

literature

• Otto Höfer : Libye 1) . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 2.2, Leipzig 1897, Sp. 2035-2042 ( digitized version ).