Xanthe (mythology) explained

In Greek mythology, Xanthe (; Ancient Greek: Ξανθή or Ξάνθη Xanthê means 'blond-haired'^[1]) or Xantho may refer to the following divinity and women:

• Xanthe, one of the 3,000 Oceanids, water-nymph daughters of the Titans Oceanus and his sister-wife Tethys.^[2]
• Xantho, one of the 50 Nereids, sea-nymph daughters of the 'Old Man of the Sea' Nereus and the Oceanid Doris.^{[3] [1]}
• Xanthe, wife of Asclepius in the Messenian version of the story. Machaon was her son.^[4]
• Xanthe, one of the Amazons.^[5]
• Xantho, one of the maenads named in a vase painting.^[6]

References

• Gaius Julius Hyginus, Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
• Hesiod, Theogony from The Homeric Hymns and Homerica with an English Translation by Hugh G. Evelyn-White, Cambridge, MA.,Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1914. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
• Publius Vergilius Maro, Bucolics, Aeneid, and Georgics of Vergil. J. B. Greenough. Boston. Ginn & Co. 1900. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.

Notes and References

1. Book: Bane, Theresa. Encyclopedia of Fairies in World Folklore and Mythology. McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers. 2013. 9780786471119. 346.
2. [Hesiod]
3. [Hyginus]
4. Book: Asclepius : a collection and interpretation of the testimonies. 1945. The Johns Hopkins Press . Emma J. Edelstein . Ludwig Edelstein. 978-0-8018-5769-0. Baltimore. 21. 14725681.
5. Hyginus, Fabulae 163 "AMAZONS: Ocyale, Dioxippe, Iphinome, Xanthe, Hippothoe, Otrere, Antioche, Laomache, Glauce, Agave, Theseis, Hippolyte, Clymene, Polydora, Penthesilea."
6. Book: Walters, Henry Beauchamp. 1905. 2. 65.