Methone (Greek myth)

Summary

In Greek mythology, Methone (Ancient Greek: Μεθώνη) was the name shared by four women:

Notes edit

  1. ^ Eustathius on Homer, Iliad 776, 16
  2. ^ Suida, s.v. Alkyonides
  3. ^ Of the Origin of Homer and Hesiod and their Contest, Fragment 1, 314
  4. ^ Tzetzes, Chiliades 6.933
  5. ^ Pausanias, 4.35.1
  6. ^ Eustathius ad Homer, p. 323
  7. ^ Hyginus, Fabulae 102

References edit

  • John Tzetzes, Book of Histories, Book V-VI translated by Konstantinos Ramiotis from the original Greek of T. Kiessling's edition of 1826. Online version at theio.com.
  • 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.
  • Suida, Suda Encyclopedia translated by Ross Scaife, David Whitehead, William Hutton, Catharine Roth, Jennifer Benedict, Gregory Hays, Malcolm Heath Sean M. Redmond, Nicholas Fincher, Patrick Rourke, Elizabeth Vandiver, Raphael Finkel, Frederick Williams, Carl Widstrand, Robert Dyer, Joseph L. Rife, Oliver Phillips and many others. Online version at the Topos Text Project.


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