Axia (mythology) explained
In Greek mythology, Axia (Ancient Greek: Ἀξίας) was a Minyan princess as the daughter of King Clymenus[1] of Orchomenus and Budeia, daughter of Lycus.[2] She was the sister of Erginus,[3] Stration, Arrhon, Pyleus, Azeus[4] and Eurydice, wife of Nestor of Pylos.[5] A town in Ozolian Locris was named after her.
Notes
- [Stephanus of Byzantium]
- [Scholia]
- [Eustathius of Thessalonica|Eustathius]
- [Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]
- Homer, Odyssey 3.452
References
- Homer, The Odyssey with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, PH.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1919. . Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
- 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. . Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
- Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- 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.
