Thebe (Greek myth)

Thebe (Ancient Greek: Θήβη) is a feminine name mentioned several times in Greek mythology, in accounts that imply multiple female characters, four of whom are said to have had three cities named Thebes after them:

• Thebe, eponym of Thebes, Egypt.^[1] She was the daughter of either Nilus, Proteus,^[2] or Libys, son of Epirus.^{[citation needed]} In another account, Thebe was called the daughter of Zeus and Iodame and was given in marriage to Ogygus by her father after Deucalion’s flood.^[3] She was the sister of another Deucalion.^[4] One rare version of the myth makes Thebe a consort of Zeus and mother of Aegyptus^[5] and/or Heracles.^[6]
• Thebe, daughter of Asopus^[2] and Metope,^[7] who was said to have consorted with Zeus.^[8] Amphion and Zethus named Boeotian Thebes^[9] after her because of their kinship, the twins being sons of her sister Antiope by Zeus. Egyptian Thebes was also named after her.^[2]
• Thebe, daughter of Zeus and Megacleite^[10] and sister of Locrus, the man who assisted Amphion and Zethus in the building of Thebes.^[11] She later on married Zethus.
• Thebe, daughter of Prometheus, and also a possible eponym of the Boeotian Thebes.^[12]
• Thebe, daughter of Cilix^[13] and thus, sister of Thasus.^[14] By Corybas,^[13] son of Cybele, she was the possible mother of Ida who begat Minos II by King Lycastus of Crete.^[15] This Thebe is possibly the eponym of Cilician Thebe.
• Thebe, daughter of the Pelasgian Adramys, the eponym of Adramyttium^[16] or of the river god Granicus^{[citation needed]}. She married Heracles, who named Hypoplacian Thebes after her.^[16]
• Thebe, an Amazon. ^{[citation needed]}
• Thebe, alternate name for the Titaness Phoebe.^{[citation needed]}

See also

• Thebe (disambiguation)

Notes

1. Nonnus, 4.304, 5.86 & 41.270
2. Scholia ad Homer, Iliad 9.383
3. Tzetzes on Lycophron, 1206 with the historian Lycus as the authority
4. Murray, John (1833). A Classical Manual, being a Mythological, Historical and Geographical Commentary on Pope's Homer, and Dryden's Aeneid of Virgil with a Copious Index. Albemarle Street, London. p. 8.
5. Tzetzes ad Lycophron, 1206.
6. John Lydus, De mensibus 4.67
7. Diodorus Siculus, 4.72.1; Pausanias, 2.5.2
8. Pausanias, 5.22.6
9. Apollodorus, 3.5.6
10. Pseudo-Clement, Recognitions 10.21
11. Eustathius ad Homer, p. 1688
12. Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Thēbē (Θήβη)
13. Diodorus Siculus, 5.49.3
14. Apollodorus, 3.1.1 with Pherecydes as the authority
15. Diodorus Siculus, 4.60.3.
16. Scholia on Homer, Iliad 6.397

References

• Apollodorus, The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. ISBN 0-674-99135-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
• Diodorus Siculus, The Library of History translated by Charles Henry Oldfather. Twelve volumes. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1989. Vol. 3. Books 4.59–8. Online version at Bill Thayer's Web Site
• Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica. Vol 1-2. Immanel Bekker. Ludwig Dindorf. Friedrich Vogel. in aedibus B. G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1888-1890. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Pausanias, Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. ISBN 0-674-99328-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
• Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Pseudo-Clement, Recognitions from Ante-Nicene Library Volume 8, translated by Smith, Rev. Thomas. T. & T. Clark, Edinburgh. 1867. Online version at theio.com
• Tzetzes, John, Lycophronis Alexandra. Vol. II: Scholia Continens, edited by Eduard Scheer, Berlin, Weidmann, 1881. Internet Archive.