Erytheia (mythology)

InGreek mythology,ErythiaorErytheiaorErythea(Ancient Greek:Ερυθεια fromerythos"red" ) may refer to the following figures:

• Erythia,also called Erytheis (Ερυθεις), one of theHesperides(Nymphsof the West).
• Erythia, daughter ofGeryonand mother, byHermes,ofNorax,the man who led theIberianstoSardinia.
• Erythia, the home of the above three-bodied giant Geryon.

Classic Literature Sources

Chronological listing of classical literature sources forErytheia:

• Euripides,Heracles Mad,420 ff (trans. Coleridge) (Greek tragedy C5th BC)
• Aristotle,Meteorologica2. 3 359a 26 ff (ed. Ross trans. Webster) (Greek philosopher C4th BC)
• Isocrates,Helen24 ff (trans. Norlin) (Greek philosophy C4th BC)
• Pseudo-Aristotle,De Mirabilibus Auscultationibus843b 133 (ed. Ross trans. Dowdall) (Greek rhetoric C4th to 3rd BC)
• Pseudo-Aristotle,De Mirabilibus Auscultationibus844a
• Fragment, Stesichorus, The Tale of Geryon 5 (trans. Edmond 1920,Lyra GraecaVol 2) (Greek commentary C1st to C1st AD)
• Strabo,Geography3. 2. 11 (trans. Jones) (Greek geography C1st BC to C1st AD)
• Strabo,Geography3. 5. 4
• Lucian,The Dance56 ff (trans. Harmon) (Assyrian satirist C2nd AD)
• Oppian,Cynegetica2. 109 ff (trans. Mair) (Greek poetry C2nd AD)
• Hippolytus,Philosophumena5 The Ophite Heresies 25 (Philosophumena by Hippolytus,Legge 1921 Vol 1 p. 172) (Christian theology C3rd AD)
• Tzetzes,Chiliades or Book of Histories2.4 330 ff (trans. Untila et al.) (Greco-Byzantine history C12th AD)
• Tzetzes,Chiliades or Book of Histories2.4 337 ff
• Tzetzes,Chiliades or Book of Histories2.4 500
• Tzetzes,Chiliades or Book of Histories4.18 351
• Tzetzes,Chiliades or Book of Histories5.38 879

Classical literature source forErytheis:

• Apollonius Rhodius,Argonautica4. 1422 ff (trans. Coleridge) (Greek epic poetry C3rd BC)

Chronological listing of classical literature sources forErythia:

• Pliny,Natural History4. 36. (trans. Bostock & Riley) (Roman historian C1st AD)
• Scholiast on Pliny,Natural History4. 36 (The Natural History of Plinytrans. Bostock & Riley 1855 Vol 1 p. 369)
• Silius,Punica16.193 ff (trans. Duff) (Roman epic poetry C1st AD)
• Pseudo-Apollodorus,The Library1. 6. 1 ff (trans. Frazer) (Greek mythography C2nd AD)
• Pseudo-Apollodorus,The Library2. 5. 10 ff
• Pseudo-Apollodorus,The Library2. 5. 10 (trans. Frazer) (Greek mythography C2nd AD)
• Scholiast on Pseudo-Apollodorus,The Library2. 5. 10 (Apollodorus The Librarytrans. Frazer 1921 Vol 1 p. 213)
• Pseudo-Apollodorus,The Library 2. 5. 11 ff (trans. Frazer) (Greek mythography C2nd AD)

Chronological listing of classical literature sources forErythea:

• Hesiod,Theogony289 ff (trans. Evelyn-White) (Greek epic poetry C8th to C7th BC)
• Hesiod,Theogony983
• Herodotus,Herodotus4. 8. 1 ff (trans. Godley) (Greek history C5th BC)
• Parthenius,The Love Romances,The Story of Celtine 30. 1 ff (trans. Gaselee) (Greek poetry C1st BC)
• Propertius,Elegies4. 11. 1 ff (trans. Butler) (Latin poetry C1st BC)
• Ovid,Fasti5. 645 ff (trans. Frazer) (Roman epic poetry C1st BC to C1st AD)
• Appian,Roman History,The Civil Wars 2. 39 ff (trans. White) (Greek history C2nd AD)
• Pausanias,Description of Greece4. 36. 3 ff (trans. Frazer) (Greek travelogue C2nd AD)
• Pausanias,Description of Greece5. 10. 2. 9 ff
• Pausanias,Description of Greece10 17. 4
• Athenaeus,Banquet of the Learned11. 38 ff (trans. Yonge) (Greek rhetoric C2nd AD to C3rd AD)
• Athenaeus,Banquet of the Learned11. 39 (trans. Yonge) (Greek rhetoric C2nd AD to C3rd AD)

References

• Pausanias,Description of Greecewith 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.ISBN0-674-99328-4.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
• Pausanias,Graeciae Descriptio.3 vols.Leipzig, Teubner. 1903.Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.