Thronia
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In
Greek mythology
, the name
Thronia
(
Ancient Greek
: Θρωνία) or
Thronie
(Θρωνίη) may refer to:
Thronia, daughter of King
Belus
of
Egypt
, and the mother of
Arabus
, the eponym of
Arabia
, by
Hermes
.
[
1
]
Thronia, a
Naiad
nymph
, mother of
Abderus
by
Poseidon
[
2
]
and the
eponym
of the city Thronion in
Opuntian Locris
.
[
3
]
Her father was possibly the
river god
Nestus
in
Bistonia
[
4
]
and thus probably the sister of
Callirhoe
.
[
5
]
^
Hesiod
,
Catalogue of Women
fr. 88 Most, pp. 172, 173
[=
Strabo
,
Geographica
1.2.34
].
^
Pindar
,
Paean
2.1–2 (fr. 52b S–M). The
Bibliotheca
(
2.5.8
) says that Abderus was the son of
Hermes
.
^
Scholia
on
Homer
,
Iliad
2.533
^
Hesiod
,
Theogony
341.
^
Stephanus of Byzantium
, s.v.
Bistonia
.