Tritogeneia (mythology) explained

In Greek mythology, Tritogeneia (Ancient Greek: Τριτυγένεια means "having three fathers") may refer to the following:

• Tritogeneia, or Trigoneia (Τριγόνεια), daughter of Aeolus, and wife of Minyas, or according to others, mother of Minyas by Poseidon.^[1] Others considered Callirhoe,^[2] Euryanassa,^[3] Hermippe^[4] or lastly, Chrysogone^[5] as the consort of the sea-god instead.
• Tritogeneia, an epithet of Athena,^[6] which is explained in different ways. Some derive it from lake Tritonis in Libya, near which she is said to have been born;^[7] others from the stream Triton near Alalcomenae in Boeotia, where she was worshipped, and where according to some statements she was also born;^[8] the grammarians, lastly, derive the name from τριτώ which, in the dialect of the Athamanians, is said to signify " head," so that it would be the goddess born out of the head of her father.^[9] Other forms of the epithets of Athena were Trito (Τριτώ), Tritogenês (Τριτογενής), Trito'nis (Τριτωνις) and Tritonia.^[10]
• Tritogeneia, another name of Orion.^[11]

Notes

1. Smith, s.v. Trigoneia, citing Tzetzes on Lycophron, 875; Scholia on Pindar Pythian 4.120.
2. Tzetzes on Lycophron, 875
3. Scholia on Homer, Odyssey 11.326 = Hesiod, fr. 62 (Loeb edition, 1914)
4. Scholia on Apollonius Rhodius, 1.230-3b
5. Scholia on Apollonius Rhodius, 3.1094: Minyas himself is the son of Poseidon and "Chrysogone", daughter of Almus.
6. Homer, Iliad 4.515; Odyssey 3.378; Hesiod, Theogony 924; Tzetzes ad Lycophron, 519, 520 & 1418
7. [Euripides]
8. [Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]
9. Scholia ad Apollonius of Rhodes, 4.1310; Homeric Hymn 28.4 ; Hesiod, Theogony 924
10. Apollonius of Rhodes, 1.72 & 1.109; Virgil, Aeneid 2.171
11. [Nonnus]

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