Orithyia

For the crab, see Orithyia (crab).

In Greek mythology, Orithyia or Oreithyia (/ɒrɪˈθaɪ.ə/;^[1] Ancient Greek: Ὠρείθυια, romanized: Ōreíthyia; Latin: Ōrīthyia) was the name of the following women:

• Orithyia or Orythya,^[2] the Nereid of raging seas^[3] and one of the 50 marine-nymph daughters of the 'Old Man of the Sea' Nereus and the Oceanid Doris.^[4] She and her other sisters appear to Thetis when she cries out in sympathy for the grief of Achilles at the slaying of his lover Patroclus.^[5]
• Orithyia, a daughter of Cecrops, wife of Makednos and mother of Europus.^[6][7]
• Orithyia, a daughter of Erechtheus, who was abducted by Boreas.^[8]
• Orithyia, a nymph, called by some the grandmother of Adonis.^[9]
• Orithyia, queen of the Amazons.^[10]