Tritogeneia_(mythology)

Tritogeneia (mythology)

Tritogeneia (mythology)

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In Greek mythology, Tritogeneia (Ancient Greek: Τριτυγένεια means "having three fathers") may refer to the following:

  • Tritogeneia, or Trigoneia (Τριγόνεια), daughter of Aeolus, and wife of Minyas, or according to others, mother of Minyas by Poseidon.[1] Others considered Callirhoe,[2] Euryanassa,[3] Hermippe[4] or lastly, Chrysogone[5] as the consort of the sea-god instead.
  • Tritogeneia, an epithet of Athena,[6] which is explained in different ways. Some derive it from lake Tritonis in Libya, near which she is said to have been born;[7] others from the stream Triton near Alalcomenae in Boeotia, where she was worshipped, and where according to some statements she was also born;[8] the grammarians, lastly, derive the name from τριτώ which, in the dialect of the Athamanians, is said to signify " head," so that it would be the goddess born out of the head of her father.[9] Other forms of the epithets of Athena were Trito (Τριτώ), Tritogenês (Τριτογενής), Trito'nis (Τριτωνις) and Tritonia.[10]
  • Tritogeneia, another name of Orion.[11]

Notes

  1. [1]
    Smith, s.v. Trigoneia, citing Tzetzes on Lycophron 873; Scholia on Pindar Pythian 4.120.
  2. [2]
    Tzetzes on Lycophron, 875
  3. [3]
    Scholia on Homer, Odyssey 11.326 = Hesiod, fr. 62 (Loeb edition, 1914)
  4. [4]
    Scholia on Apollonius Rhodius, 1.230-3b
  5. [5]
    Scholia on Apollonius Rhodius, 3.1094: Minyas himself is the son of Poseidon and "Chrysogone", daughter of Almus.
  6. [6]
    Homer, Iliad 4.515; Odyssey 3.378; Hesiod, Theogony 924
  7. [7]
    Euripides, Ion 872; Apollodorus, 1.3.6; Herodotus, 4.150 & 4.179
  8. [8]
    Pausanias, 9.33.5; Homer, Iliad 4.8
  9. [9]
    Scholia ad Apollonius of Rhodes, 4.1310; Homeric Hymn 28.4 ; Hesiod, Theogony 924
  10. [10]
    Apollonius of Rhodes, 1.72 & 1.109; Virgil, Aeneid 2.171
  11. [11]
    Nonnus, 13.99

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