Aethusa
In Greek mythology, Aethusa (Ancient Greek:
The word aethusa was used as an epithet for a portico that was open to the sun above.[7]
According to Pliny's Naturalis Historia, Aethusa is also the eponym of the Italian island which is now called Linosa.
Notes
[edit]- ^ Suida, s.v. Homer; Of the Origin of Homer and Hesiod and their Contest, Fragment 1.314
- ^ Bell, Robert E. (1991). Women of Classical Mythology: A Biographical Dictionary. ABC-CLIO. p. 13. ISBN 9780874365818.
- ^ Schmitz, Leonhard (1870). "Aethusa". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1. Boston, MA. p. 51. Archived from the original on 2010-06-08. Retrieved 2007-11-04.
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Apollodorus, 3.10.1; Pausanias, 9.20.2
- ^ Suida, s.v. Homer; Of the Origin of Homer and Hesiod and their Contest, Fragment 1.314
- ^ Suida, s.v. Homer
- ^ Jebb, Richard Claverhouse (1887). Homer: An Introduction to the Iliad and the Odyssey. Glasgow: James Maclehose and Sons. p. 58.
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References
[edit]- Apollodorus, The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. ISBN 0-674-99135-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
- Bell, Robert E., Women of Classical Mythology: A Biographical Dictionary. ABC-Clio. 1991. ISBN 9780874365818, 0874365813.
- Pausanias, Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. ISBN 0-674-99328-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
- Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Suida, Suda Encyclopedia translated by Ross Scaife, David Whitehead, William Hutton, Catharine Roth, Jennifer Benedict, Gregory Hays, Malcolm Heath Sean M. Redmond, Nicholas Fincher, Patrick Rourke, Elizabeth Vandiver, Raphael Finkel, Frederick Williams, Carl Widstrand, Robert Dyer, Joseph L. Rife, Oliver Phillips and many others. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1870). "Aethusa". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.