Greek mythology
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, Erythia or Erytheia or Erythea (
Ancient Greek
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: Ερυθεια from ''erythos'' "red") may refer to the following figures:
* Erythia, also called Erytheis (Ερυθεις), one of the
Hesperides
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Nymph
A nymph ( grc, νύμφη, nýmphē, el, script=Latn, nímfi, label=Modern Greek; , ) in ancient Greek folklore is a minor female nature deity. Different from Greek goddesses, nymphs are generally regarded as personifications of nature, are ty ...
Hermes
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Norax Norax ( grc, Νώραξ) was an ancient mythological hero of the Nuragic Sardinian mythology. He was the son of the god Hermes and Eriteide (Erytheia), who was the daughter of Geryon. Norax appears in the writings of Pausanias, Sallust and Solinus.
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Iberians
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Sardinia
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Pausanias Pausanias ( el, Παυσανίας) may refer to:
*Pausanias of Athens, lover of the poet Agathon and a character in Plato's ''Symposium''
*Pausanias the Regent, Spartan general and regent of the 5th century BC
* Pausanias of Sicily, physician of t ...
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* Erythia, the home of the above three-bodied giant Geryon.
Classic Literature Sources
Chronological listing of classical literature sources for Erytheia:
* Euripides, ''Heracles Mad'', 420 ff (trans. Coleridge) (Greek tragedy C5th BC)
* Aristotle, ''Meteorologica'' 2. 3 359a 26 ff (ed. Ross trans. Webster) (Greek philosopher C4th BC)
* Isocrates, ''Helen'' 24 ff (trans. Norlin) (Greek philosophy C4th BC)
* Pseudo-Aristotle, ''De Mirabilibus Auscultationibus'' 843b 133 (ed. Ross trans. Dowdall) (Greek rhetoric C4th to 3rd BC)
* Pseudo-Aristotle, ''De Mirabilibus Auscultationibus'' 844a
* Fragment, Stesichorus, The Tale of Geryon 5 (trans. Edmond 1920, ''Lyra Graeca'' Vol 2) (Greek commentary C1st to C1st AD)
* Strabo, ''Geography'' 3. 2. 11 (trans. Jones) (Greek geography C1st BC to C1st AD)
* Strabo, ''Geography'' 3. 5. 4
* Lucian, ''The Dance'' 56 ff (trans. Harmon) (Assyrian satirist C2nd AD)
* Oppian, ''Cynegetica'' 2. 109 ff (trans. Mair) (Greek poetry C2nd AD)
* Hippolytus, ''Philosophumena'' 5 The Ophite Heresies 25 (''Philosophumena by Hippolytus'', Legge 1921 Vol 1 p. 172) (Christian theology C3rd AD)
* Tzetzes, ''Chiliades or Book of Histories'' 2.4 330 ff (trans. Untila et al.) (Greco-Byzantine history C12th AD)
* Tzetzes, ''Chiliades or Book of Histories'' 2.4 337 ff
* Tzetzes, ''Chiliades or Book of Histories'' 2.4 500
* Tzetzes, ''Chiliades or Book of Histories'' 4.18 351
* Tzetzes, ''Chiliades or Book of Histories'' 5.38 879
Classical literature source for Erytheis:
* Apollonius Rhodius, ''Argonautica'' 4. 1422 ff (trans. Coleridge) (Greek epic poetry C3rd BC)
Chronological listing of classical literature sources for Erythia:
* Pliny, ''Natural History'' 4. 36. (trans. Bostock & Riley) (Roman historian C1st AD)
* Scholiast on Pliny, ''Natural History'' 4. 36 (''The Natural History of Pliny'' trans. Bostock & Riley 1855 Vol 1 p. 369)
* Silius, ''Punica'' 16.193 ff (trans. Duff) (Roman epic poetry C1st AD)
* Pseudo-Apollodorus, ''The Library'' 1. 6. 1 ff (trans. Frazer) (Greek mythography C2nd AD)
* Pseudo-Apollodorus, ''The Library'' 2. 5. 10 ff
* Pseudo-Apollodorus, ''The Library'' 2. 5. 10 (trans. Frazer) (Greek mythography C2nd AD)
* Scholiast on Pseudo-Apollodorus, ''The Library'' 2. 5. 10 (''Apollodorus The Library'' trans. Frazer 1921 Vol 1 p. 213)
* Pseudo-Apollodorus, ''The Librar''y 2. 5. 11 ff (trans. Frazer) (Greek mythography C2nd AD)
Chronological listing of classical literature sources for Erythea:
* Hesiod, ''Theogony'' 289 ff (trans. Evelyn-White) (Greek epic poetry C8th to C7th BC)
* Hesiod, ''Theogony'' 983
* Herodotus, ''Herodotus'' 4. 8. 1 ff (trans. Godley) (Greek history C5th BC)
* Parthenius, ''The Love Romances'', The Story of Celtine 30. 1 ff (trans. Gaselee) (Greek poetry C1st BC)
* Propertius, ''Elegies'' 4. 11. 1 ff (trans. Butler) (Latin poetry C1st BC)
* Ovid, ''Fasti'' 5. 645 ff (trans. Frazer) (Roman epic poetry C1st BC to C1st AD)
* Appian, ''Roman History'', The Civil Wars 2. 39 ff (trans. White) (Greek history C2nd AD)
* Pausanias, ''Description of Greece'' 4. 36. 3 ff (trans. Frazer) (Greek travelogue C2nd AD)
* Pausanias, ''Description of Greece'' 5. 10. 2. 9 ff
* Pausanias, ''Description of Greece'' 10 17. 4
* Athenaeus, ''Banquet of the Learned'' 11. 38 ff (trans. Yonge) (Greek rhetoric C2nd AD to C3rd AD)
* Athenaeus, ''Banquet of the Learned'' 11. 39 (trans. Yonge) (Greek rhetoric C2nd AD to C3rd AD)
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Pausanias Pausanias ( el, Παυσανίας) may refer to:
*Pausanias of Athens, lover of the poet Agathon and a character in Plato's ''Symposium''
*Pausanias the Regent, Spartan general and regent of the 5th century BC
* Pausanias of Sicily, physician of t ...