Pronoe (daughter of Nereus)

Pronoe ( Greek  Προνόη , "the precautionary" or "the forward thinker") is a Nereid , a daughter of Nereus and Doris , in Greek mythology .

According to Hesiod F 4, the name of one of Prometheus' wives is also Pronoe .

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• Hesiod Theogony 240

literature

• Hans von Geisau : Pronoe 1. In: Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume XXIII, 1, Stuttgart 1957, Col. 744.
• Otto Höfer : Pronoe 1 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 3.2, Leipzig 1909, Col. 3119 ( digitized version ).
• Nina Johansen: Pronoe 1. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 10, Metzler, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-476-01480-0 , Sp. 408.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Paul Dräger: Investigations into Hesiod's women's catalogs . Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 1997, p. 37.
2. ^ Karl Kerényi: Prometheus: archetypal image of human existence . Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ 1997, p. 55.