Thyia of Thessaly
| Thyia | |
|---|---|
Princess ofPhthia | |
| Member of theDeucalionids | |
| Abode | Phthia,Thessaly |
| Genealogy | |
| Parents | DeucalionandPyrrha |
| Siblings | HellenandPandora;and possibly:Protogeneia,Amphictyon,MelanthoandCandybus |
| Consort | Zeus |
| Children | MagnesandMakednos |
InGreek mythology,Thyia(/ˈθaɪə/;Ancient Greek:ΘυίαThuiaderived from the verbθύω"to sacrifice" ) was aPhthianprincess as the daughter of KingDeucalionofThessaly.
Biography
[edit]Thyia's mother wasPyrrha,daughter ofEpimetheusandPandora.She was the sister of Hellen andPandora II,and possibly ofAmphictyon,Protogeneia,Melantho(Melanthea) andCandybus.
Like her other sisters, Thyia bore toZeussons namely,MagnesandMakednos(the claimed ancestor of theMacedonians).[1]Her account was according to a quotation fromHesiod's lost work theCatalogue of Women,preserved in theDe ThematibusofConstantine Porphyrogenitusand inStephanus of Byzantium'sEthnika.[2]
Notes
[edit]- ^Gantz, p. 167.
- ^fr. 7 Most, pp. 48, 49[= fr. 7 Merkelbach-West =Constantine Porphyrogenitus,De Thematibus,2 (Pertusi, pp. 86–7)];Stephanus of Byzantium,s.v.Makedonia.
References
[edit]- Gantz, Timothy,Early Greek Myth: A Guide to Literary and Artistic Sources,Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996, Two volumes:ISBN978-0-8018-5360-9(Vol. 1),ISBN978-0-8018-5362-3(Vol. 2).
- Hesiod,Catalogue of Women,inHesiod: The Shield, Catalogue of Women, Other Fragments,edited and translated byGlenn W. Most,Loeb Classical LibraryNo. 503, Cambridge, Massachusetts,Harvard University Press,2007, 2018.ISBN978-0-674-99721-9.Online version at Harvard University Press.assics-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/view/LCL503/2018/volume.xml Online version at Harvard University Press].
- Merkelbach, R., andM. L. West,Fragmenta Hesiodea,Clarendon PressOxford, 1967.ISBN978-0-19-814171-6.
- Pertusi, Agostino,Costantino Porfirogenito De thematibus,Biblioteca apostolica vaticana, 1952.Google Books.
- 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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