Thebe (daughter of Asopus)

Thebe ( Greek  Θήβη ) is the daughter of the river god Asopos and Metope in Greek mythology . This Thebe was the lover of Zeus and afterwards wife of Zethos , who conquered Thebes with his brother Amphion . The city, which was previously called Kadmeia or Echionia, was named Thebes in honor of Zethos' wife.

swell

• Pindar Olympia 6.4; Isthmia 8.16 ff
• Libraries of Apollodorus 3.45
• Herodotus Histories 5,80,1
• Pausanias 2.5.1; 5.22.6
• Diodor Libraries 4,72,1

literature

• Otto Höfer : Thebe I d . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 5, Leipzig 1924, Sp. 552-555 ( digitized version ).
• Friedrich Schwenn: Thebe. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume VA, 2, Stuttgart 1934, column 1594 f.
• Christina Vlassopoulou:  Thebe . In: Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (LIMC). Volume VII, Zurich / Munich 1994, pp. 914-916.

Web links

• Thebe in the Theoi Project (English)