Bura (Greek mythology) explained

In Greek mythology, Bura (; Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: Βούρα|Boúra) was a daughter of Ion, son of Xuthus, and Helice. She was the eponym of the city Boura in Achaea.^[1]

She is possibly the same as Bura, mother of Atrax by Peneus.^[2]

References

• 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.

Notes and References

1. [Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]
2. Stephanus, s.v. Atrax