Ephyra_(mythology)

Ephyra (mythology)

Ephyra (mythology)

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In Greek mythology, Ephyra (Ancient Greek: Ἐφύρα, romanized: Ephýra) or Ephyre may refer to two different deities:


Notes

  1. Hyginus, Fabulae 275; Scholiast on Apollonius of Rhodes as cited in Simonides, fr. 596
  2. Bane, Theresa (2013). Encyclopedia of Fairies in World Folklore and Mythology. McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers. p. 127. ISBN 9780786471119.
  3. Scholiast on Apollonius of Rhodes, 4.1212
  4. Scholiast on Apollonius of Rhodes, 4.1212 as cited in Simonides, fr. 596
  5. Eumelus, fr. 1 Fowler (Fowler 2013, p. 13)
  6. Pausanias, 2.1.1 with Eumelus in his Korinthian History as the authority
  7. Epimenides in scholia on Apollonius Rhodius, 3.242
  8. Hyginus, Fabulae Preface
  9. Bane, Theresa (2013). Encyclopedia of Fairies in World Folklore and Mythology. McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers. p. 127. ISBN 9780786471119.
  10. This was definitely a misinterpretation of Hyginus in Virgil's Georgics 4.343 which suggests that Ephyra was a naiad, more likely an Oceanides, rather than a Nereid.

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