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Ossa (mythology) 
Summary
In Greek mythology, Ossa (Ancient Greek: Όσσα) or Assa was the mother of King Sithon of Thrace by the sea god Poseidon.[1] Her son was notorious for killing the wooers of his daughter, Pallene.[2] In some accounts, the war-god Ares and Anchiroe were called the parents of Sithon.[3][4]
Note edit
- ^ Tzetzes on Lycophron, 1356
- ^ Conon, Narrations 10
- ^ Tzetzes on Lycophron, 583 & 1161
- ^ Hegesippus in Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Pallene
References edit
- Conon, Fifty Narrations, surviving as one-paragraph summaries in the Bibliotheca (Library) of Photius, Patriarch of Constantinople translated from the Greek by Brady Kiesling. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
- Stephanus of Byzantium, Stephani Byzantii Ethnicorum quae supersunt, edited by August Meineike (1790–1870), published 1849. A few entries from this important ancient handbook of place names have been translated by Brady Kiesling. Online version at the Topos Text Project.