Demonice of Aetolia explained

In Greek mythology, Demonice (; Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: Δημονίκη|Dēmonī́kē) was a Aetolian princess as the daughter of King Agenor of Pleuron and Epicaste and thus sister of Porthaon and in some account, Thestius.^[1] She bore Ares four sons: Evenus, Molus, Pylus, and Thestius.^[2] Her son's names may be intended to be eponyms, with Evenus corresponding to the river Evinos in Aetolia; Pylus to the Aetolian city of Pylene between the rivers Achelous and Evenos; and Molus to the people named Molossians from Epirus. Demonice was also known as Demodice^[3] (Δημοδίκη) or Demodoce.^[4]

Mythology

Demonice was recounted by Hesiod in his Catalogue of Women in the following lines:

Demodoce whom very many of men on earth, mighty princes, wooed, promising splendid gifts, because of her exceeding beauty.^[5]

Notes

1. [Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]
2. [Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]
3. [Scholia]
4. Scholia on Homer, Iliad 14.200; on Odyssey 1.98
5. [Hesiod]

References

• Apollodorus, 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. . 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.