Idothea, a daughter of
Oceanus and possibly
Tethys, thus considered to be one of the
Oceanids. Together with her sisters
Adrasta and Althaea (
Amalthea[1]), she was one of the nurses of young
Zeus.[2]
Eidothea, a sea goddess and daughter of
Proteus, the
Old Man of the Sea. She told
Menelaus how to hold her father so that he could not escape.[3] Eidothea was simply called Eido who changed her name into
Theonoe.[4] Another of her name was
Eurynome.[5]
Eidothea, a
nymph of
Othreis who mothered by
Eusiros (son of
Poseidon) of
Cerambus who was metamorphosed by the
nymphs into a gnawing beetle because of his insolence.[6] In some myths, her son was borne up into the air on wings by the nymphs escaping the flood of
Deucalion.[7]
Eidothea, second wife of
Phineus, king of
Thrace. She was the sister of
Cadmus and thus, maybe the daughter of
Agenor, king of
Tyre. Eidothea put out the eyes of her stepsons (
Gerymbas and
Aspondus[9]) with the sharp shuttle in her blood-stained hands and also caused to imprisoned them.[10][11]
Smith, Scott R., and Stephen M. Trzaskoma, Apollodorus' Library and Hyginus' Fabulae: Two Handbooks of Greek Mythology, Hackett Publishing, Indianapolis/Cambridge, 2007.
ISBN978-0-87220-821-6.
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Trzaskoma, Stephen M., R. Scott Smith, and Stephen Brunet, Anthology of Classical Myth: Primary Sources in Translation, Hackett Publishing, 2004.
ISBN0-87220-721-8.
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Idothea, a daughter of
Oceanus and possibly
Tethys, thus considered to be one of the
Oceanids. Together with her sisters
Adrasta and Althaea (
Amalthea[1]), she was one of the nurses of young
Zeus.[2]
Eidothea, a sea goddess and daughter of
Proteus, the
Old Man of the Sea. She told
Menelaus how to hold her father so that he could not escape.[3] Eidothea was simply called Eido who changed her name into
Theonoe.[4] Another of her name was
Eurynome.[5]
Eidothea, a
nymph of
Othreis who mothered by
Eusiros (son of
Poseidon) of
Cerambus who was metamorphosed by the
nymphs into a gnawing beetle because of his insolence.[6] In some myths, her son was borne up into the air on wings by the nymphs escaping the flood of
Deucalion.[7]
Eidothea, second wife of
Phineus, king of
Thrace. She was the sister of
Cadmus and thus, maybe the daughter of
Agenor, king of
Tyre. Eidothea put out the eyes of her stepsons (
Gerymbas and
Aspondus[9]) with the sharp shuttle in her blood-stained hands and also caused to imprisoned them.[10][11]
Smith, Scott R., and Stephen M. Trzaskoma, Apollodorus' Library and Hyginus' Fabulae: Two Handbooks of Greek Mythology, Hackett Publishing, Indianapolis/Cambridge, 2007.
ISBN978-0-87220-821-6.
Google Books.
Trzaskoma, Stephen M., R. Scott Smith, and Stephen Brunet, Anthology of Classical Myth: Primary Sources in Translation, Hackett Publishing, 2004.
ISBN0-87220-721-8.
Google books.
This article includes a list of Greek mythological figures with the same or similar names. If an
internal link for a specific Greek mythology article referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended Greek mythology article, if one exists.