Thebe (daughter of Prometheus)

Thebe ( Greek  Θήβη ) is the daughter of Prometheus and a nymph in Greek mythology . She is the namesake for Thebes in Boeotia .

A connection between (a) Prometheus and Thebes can be found in Pausanias , who reports that the Kabiren people used to inhabit the place. Demeter came to them and gave Kabiren Prometheus and his son Aitnaios a sacred object.

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• Stephanos of Byzantium sv Thebe
• Pausanias 9.25.6

literature

• Otto Höfer : Thebe I a . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 5, Leipzig 1924, Sp. 552-555 ( digitized version ).