Aethusa

For other uses, see Aethusa (disambiguation).

In Greek mythology, Aethusa (Ancient Greek: Αἵθουσα) was a daughter of Poseidon and the Pleiad Alcyone, daughter of Atlas.[1][2][3] She was loved by Apollo and bore to him Eleuther[4] and Linus.[5] Through either of the latter two, Aethusa became the grandmother of Pierus, father of Oeagrus, father of the musician Orpheus. Because of this genealogical fact, she was usually identified as a Thracian.[6]

The word aethusa was used as an epithet for a portico that was open to the sun above.[7]

According to Pliny's Naturalis Historia, Aethusa is also the eponym of the Italian island which is now called Linosa.

  1. ^ Suida, s.v. Homer; Of the Origin of Homer and Hesiod and their Contest, Fragment 1.314
  2. ^ Bell, Robert E. (1991). Women of Classical Mythology: A Biographical Dictionary. ABC-CLIO. p. 13. ISBN 9780874365818.
  3. ^ Schmitz, Leonhard (1870). "Aethusa". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1. Boston, MA. p. 51. Archived from the original on 2010-06-08. Retrieved 2007-11-04.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  4. ^ Apollodorus, 3.10.1; Pausanias, 9.20.2
  5. ^ Suida, s.v. Homer; Of the Origin of Homer and Hesiod and their Contest, Fragment 1.314
  6. ^ Suida, s.v. Homer
  7. ^ Jebb, Richard Claverhouse (1887). Homer: An Introduction to the Iliad and the Odyssey. Glasgow: James Maclehose and Sons. p. 58. aethusa.