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Opis (mythology)

Opis (mythology)

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In Greek mythology, Opis (Ancient Greek: Ὦπις or Ὦπιν means 'sighting') or Upis (Οὖπις) may refer to the following characters:

Feminine

Masculine

  • Upis or Upisis, father of the "third" Artemis by Glauce.[13]

Surname

  • Oupis or Upis, a surname of Artemis, as the goddess assisting women in childbirth.[14]
  • Upis, a surname of Nemesis at Rhamnous, in the remote northernmost deme of Attica.[15]

Notes

  1. [1]
    Hyginus, Fabulae 139
  2. [2]
    Hyginus, Fabulae Preface
  3. [3]
    Virgil, Georgics 4.343
  4. [4]
    This was definitely a misinterpretation of Hyginus in Virgil's Georgics 4.343 which suggests that Opis was a naiad, more likely an Oceanid, rather than a Nereid.
  5. [5]
    Callimachus, Hymn to Delos 292
  6. [6]
    Herodotus, 4.35; Pausanias, 1.43.4 & 5.7.8
  7. [7]
    Nonnus, 48.331
  8. [8]
    Apollodorus, 1.4.5
  9. [9]
    Virgil: His life and times by Peter Levi, Duckworth, 1998
  10. [10]
    Virgil, Aeneid 11.533 & 11.863
  11. [11]
    Scholiast on Callimachus, Hymn to Artemis
  12. [12]
    Hyginus, Fabulae 97
  13. [13]
    Cicero, De Natura Deorum 3.23
  14. [14]
    Callimachus, Hymn to Artemis 240
  15. [15]
    Pausanias, 1.33.2

References

  • 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.
  • Callimachus, Callimachus and Lycophron with an English translation by A. W. Mair ; Aratus, with an English translation by G. R. Mair, London: W. Heinemann, New York: G. P. Putnam 1921. Internet Archive
  • Callimachus, Works. A.W. Mair. London: William Heinemann; New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1921. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
  • Gaius Julius Hyginus, Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
  • Herodotus, The Histories with an English translation by A. D. Godley. Cambridge. Harvard University Press. 1920. ISBN 0-674-99133-8. Online version at the Topos Text Project. Greek text available at Perseus Digital Library.
  • Marcus Tullius Cicero, Nature of the Gods from the Treatises of M.T. Cicero translated by Charles Duke Yonge (1812-1891), Bohn edition of 1878. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
  • Marcus Tullius Cicero, De Natura Deorum. O. Plasberg. Leipzig. Teubner. 1917. Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
  • Nonnus of Panopolis, Dionysiaca translated by William Henry Denham Rouse (1863-1950), from the Loeb Classical Library, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1940. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
  • Nonnus of Panopolis, Dionysiaca. 3 Vols. W.H.D. Rouse. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1940–1942. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
  • 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.
  • Publius Vergilius Maro, Aeneid. Theodore C. Williams. trans. Boston. Houghton Mifflin Co. 1910. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
  • Publius Vergilius Maro, Bucolics, Aeneid, and Georgics. J. B. Greenough. Boston. Ginn & Co. 1900. Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
  • Publius Vergilius Maro, Bucolics, Aeneid, and Georgics of Vergil. J. B. Greenough. Boston. Ginn & Co. 1900. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.


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