Pisidice
InGreek mythology,Pisidice(/paɪˈsɪdɪsiː/,Ancient Greek:Πεισιδίκη,Peisidíkē,"to convince or persuade" ) orPeisidicewas one of the following individuals:
- Pisidice, aThessalianprincess as the daughter of KingAeolusof Aeolia andEnarete,daughter ofDeimachus.She was the sister ofSalmoneus,Athamas,Sisyphus,Cretheus,Perieres,Deioneus,Magnes,Calyce,Canace,AlcyoneandPerimede.Peisidice was the mother ofAntiphusandActorbyMyrmidon.[1]She may also be the mother of Myrmidon's other children:Erysichthon,[2]Dioplethes,[3]Hiscilla[4]andEupolemeia.[5]
- Pisidice, an alternate name forDemonice,mother ofThestiusbyAres.[6]
- Pisidice, a princess ofIolcusas the daughter ofPelias,who, together with her sisters, killed their father, asMedeatricked them into believing this was needed to rejuvenate him.[7]
- Pisidice, aPylianprincess and daughter of KingNestorandAnaxibia[8]orEurydice.[9]She was sister toPolycaste,Perseus,Stratichus,Aretus,Echephron,Pisistratus,AntilochusandThrasymedes.[10]She was probably the Pisidice who became the mother ofBorusbyPericlymenus,brother of Nestor and consequently her uncle.[11]
- Pisidice, a princess ofMethymna,who fell in love withAchillesas he besieged her city, and promised to put Methymna into his possession if he would marry her. He agreed to her terms but, as soon as the city was his, he ordered that she be stoned to death as a traitor.[12][13]
- Pisidice, a queen ofHaliartusas wife of KingCopreus.[14]She was of royal descent as well as the daughter of KingLeuconofBoeotia.By her husband, Pisidice became the mother ofHippoclus[14]andArgynnos,who was loved byAgamemnonand drowned in RiverCephissus.[15]
Notes
[edit]- ^Hesiod,Ehoiaifr. 10(a);Apollodorus,1.7.3
- ^Aelian,Varia Historia1.27;Athenaeus,10.9b
- ^ScholiaonHomer,Iliad16.177
- ^Hyginus,DeAstronomica2.14.5
- ^Apollonius Rhodius,1.54; Hyginus,Fabulae14
- ^Pseudo-Plutarch,De fluviis22.1
- ^Hesiod,Ehoiaifr. 35; Apollodorus, 1.9.10 & 27; Hyginus,Fabulae24
- ^Homer,Odyssey3.451–52
- ^Apollodorus,1.9.9
- ^Homer,Odyssey3.452; Apollodorus,1.9.9
- ^Scholia onPlato,Symposium208d citingHellanicus
- ^Parthenius,21
- ^Compare with the stories ofScyllaandMinos,and ofComaethoandAmphitryon;see alsoLeucophrye
- ^abGantz, p. 180.
- ^Stephanus of Byzantium,s.v.Argynnion
References
[edit]- Apollonius Rhodius,Argonauticatranslated by Robert Cooper Seaton (1853-1915), R. C. Loeb Classical Library Volume 001. London, William Heinemann Ltd, 1912.Online version at the Topos Text Project.
- Apollonius Rhodius,Argonautica.George W. Mooney. London. Longmans, Green. 1912.Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Athenaeus of Naucratis,The Deipnosophists or Banquet of the Learned.London. Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden. 1854.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Athenaeus of Naucratis,Deipnosophistae.Kaibel. In Aedibus B.G. Teubneri. Lipsiae. 1887.Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Claudius Aelianus,Varia Historiatranslated by Thomas Stanley (d.1700) edition of 1665.Online version at the Topos Text Project.
- Claudius Aelianus,Claudii Aeliani de natura animalium libri xvii, varia historia, epistolae, fragmenta, Vol 2.Rudolf Hercher. In Aedibus B.G. Teubneri. Lipsiae. 1866.Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Hesiod,Catalogue of WomenfromHomeric Hymns, Epic Cycle, Homericatranslated by Evelyn-White, H G. Loeb Classical Library Volume 57. London: William Heinemann, 1914.Online version at theio.com
- Homer,The Odysseywith an English Translation by A.T. Murray, Ph.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1919.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.Greek text available from the same website.
- Gaius Julius Hyginus,Astronomica from The Myths of Hyginustranslated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies.Online version at the Topos Text Project.
- Parthenius,Love Romancestranslated by Sir Stephen Gaselee (1882-1943), S. Loeb Classical Library Volume 69. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. 1916.Online version at the Topos Text Project.
- Gaius Julius Hyginus,Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginustranslated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies.Online version at the Topos Text Project.
- Parthenius,Erotici Scriptores Graeci, Vol. 1.Rudolf Hercher. in aedibus B. G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1858.Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Pseudo-Apollodorus,The Librarywith 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.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.Greek text available from the same website.
- Plutarch,Moralstranslated from the Greek by several hands. Corrected and revised by.William W. Goodwin,Ph.D. Boston. Little, Brown, and Company. Cambridge. Press Of John Wilson and son. 1874. 5.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Stephanus of Byzantium,Stephani Byzantii Ethnicorum quae supersunt,edited by August Meineike (1790-1870), published 1849. A few entries from this important ancient handbook of place names have been translated by Brady Kiesling.Online version at the Topos Text Project.
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