Ino (Greek mythology)

Ino
Queen of Boeotia
Member of the Theban Royal Family
Leucothea (1862)
by Jean Jules Allasseur (1818-1903).
South façade of the Cour Carrée in the Palais du Louvre.
Other namesLeucothea
AbodeThebes, later Athamantia in Boeotia
Genealogy
ParentsCadmus and Harmonia
SiblingsAgave, Autonoë, Semele and Polydorus
ConsortAthamas
OffspringLearchus and Melicertes

In Greek mythology, Ino (/ˈn/ EYE-noh; Ancient Greek: Ἰνώ [iːnɔ̌ː][1]) was a Theban princess who later became a queen of Boeotia. After her death and transfiguration, she was worshiped as a goddess under her epithet Leucothea, the "white goddess." Alcman called her "Queen of the Sea" (θαλασσομέδουσα thalassomédousa),[2] which, if not hyperbole, would make her a goddess parallel to Amphitrite.

  1. ^ Liddell, Henry George; Scott, Robert, eds. (1940). "Ἰνώ" [Ino]. A Greek-English Lexicon. Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press. Archived from the original on 21 March 2023. Retrieved 18 July 2024 – via Tufts University (perseus.tufts.edu).
  2. ^ Ἀλκμάν (1988). "Fragment 50b". In Campbell (ed.). Alcman Fragments. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. pp. 428, 429 – via Harvard U. Press (loebclassics.com).