Maira (daughter of Erasino)
Maira ( Greek Μαῖρα ) is a person from Greek mythology .
In literary terms, it appears exclusively in a chapter of the Metamorphoses by the mythographer Antoninus Liberalis , in which the career of Britomartis is reproduced. Here Maira is the daughter of the Argive river god Erasinos and sister of Byza , Molite and Anchiroe .
literature
- Adolf Schirmer : Maira 2 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 2.2, Leipzig 1897, column 2285 ( digitized version ).
- Marie Christina van der Kolf : Maira 5. In: Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume XIV, 1, Stuttgart 1928, Col. 605.
Remarks
- ^ Antoninus Liberalis 40.