Ancient Greek female name
Polydora (; Ancient Greek : Πολυδώρᾱ in Attic and Πολυδώρη Ionic , means 'many-gifts' or 'the shapely'[ 1] Greek mythology :
Polydora, the 'handsome' Oceanid , one of the 3,000 water-nymph daughters of the Titans Oceanus and his sister-spouse Tethys .[ 1] [ 2] [ 3]
Polydora, a nymph and one of the 50 Danaïdes , daughter of King Danaus . She was the mother of King Dryops of Oeta , by the river-gods Spercheus [ 4] Peneus .[ 5]
Polydora, wife of Aphareus of Messenia and thus, the possible mother of his children, Idas , Lynceus and Peisus .[ 6] Arene [ 7] Laocoosa .[ 8]
Polydora, daughter of Peleus and Antigone , daughter of King Eurytion of Phthia .[ 9] Borus , son of Perieres , who wooed her with large dowry, but regardless of this, Polydora became the mother of Menesthius by Spercheios .[ 10]
Polydora, daughter of Perieres and wife of Peleus . In some accounts, she became the mother of Menesthius by Spercheus.[ 11]
Polydora, daughter of Meleager and Cleopatra . She was married to Protesilaus , and after his death she was so affected by grief that she took her own life.[ 12]
Polydora, one of the Amazons .[ 13]
^ a b Bane, Theresa (2013). Encyclopedia of Fairies in World Folklore and Mythology . McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers. p. 279. ISBN 9780786471119 ^ Kerényi , Carl (1951). The Gods of the Greeks . London: Thames and Hudson . p. 41.^ Hesiod , Theogony ^ Antoninus Liberalis , 32 ^ Scholiast on Apollonius Rhodius , 1.1212^ Scholia on Apollonius Rhodius, 1.152 with a reference to Peisander for Polydora
^ Apollodorus, 3.10.3
^ Theocritus , Idyll 22.206; Scholia on Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.152, with a reference to Theocritus for Laocoosa^ Apollodorus , 3.13.4 ; Eustathius on Homer , p. 321^ Homer, Iliad
^ Apollodorus, 3.13.4
^ Pausanias , 4.2.7 ^ Hyginus, Fabulae 163