Arsinoe

The nurse of Orestes, who saved him from the hands of his mother Clytemnestra, and carried him to the aged Strophius, the father of Pylades.1 Other traditions called this nurse Laodameia.2

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References

Notes

  1. Pindar. Pythian Odes xii, 25, 54.
  2. Scholiast on Pindar, l.c.

Source

  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.

This article incorporates text from Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1870) by William Smith, which is in the public domain.