In
Greek mythology, Pieria (;
Ancient Greek: Πιερία) was one of the multiple wives of King
Danaus
In Greek mythology, Danaus (, ; grc, Δαναός ''Danaós'') was the king of Libya. His myth is a foundation legend of Argos, one of the foremost Mycenaean cities of the Peloponnesus. In Homer's ''Iliad'', "Danaans" ("tribe of Danaus") and " ...
of
Libya. By the latter, she bore six princesses:
Actaea,
Podarce,
Dioxippe,
Adite,
Ocypete and
Pylarge. These
Danaides married their cousins, sons of King
Aegyptus
In Greek mythology, Aegyptus or Ægyptus (; grc, Αἴγυπτος) was a legendary king of ancient Egypt. He was a descendant of the princess Io through his father Belus, and of the river-god Nilus as both the father of Achiroe, his mother ...
of
Egypt and
Gorgo. Later on, these women slayed their husbands on their first wedding night under the command of their father. The legendary punishment for them was to try to fill up a hollow tank in
Tartarus.
According to
Hippostratus
Hippostratus ( grc, Ἱππόστρατος, Hippostratos) was an Indo-Greek king who ruled central and north-western Punjab and Pushkalavati. Bopearachchi dates Hippostratus to 65 to 55 BCE whereas R. C. Senior suggests 60 to 50 BCE.
Rule
In B ...
, Danaus had all of his progeny by a single woman,
Europe, daughter of the
river-god Nilus. In some accounts, he married his cousin
Melia Melia or Melie ( Ancient Greek: Μελία, Μελίη) may refer to:
Greek mythology
* Melia (mythology), the name of several figures
* Melia, the singular form of Meliae, a type of nymph
People and fictional characters
* Melia (given name)
* ...
, daughter of
Agenor
Agenor (; Ancient Greek: Ἀγήνωρ or Αγήνορας ''Agēnor''; English language, English translation: "heroic, manly") was in Greek mythology and history a Phoenician monarch, king of Tyre, Lebanon, Tyre or Sidon. The Dorians, Doric Gr ...
, king of
Tyre.
[ Scholia on Apollonius Rhodius, '' Argonautica'' Notes on Book 3.1689]
Notes
Queens in Greek mythology
Pierian mythology
References
*
Apollodorus
Apollodorus (Ancient Greek, Greek: Ἀπολλόδωρος ''Apollodoros'') was a popular name in ancient Greece. It is the masculine gender of a noun compounded from Apollo, the deity, and doron, "gift"; that is, "Gift of Apollo." It may refer to: ...
, ''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
* Tzetzes, John, ''Book of Histories,'' Book VII-VIII translated by Vasiliki Dogani from the original Greek of T. Kiessling's edition of 1826
Online version at theio.com
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