Biadice

The wife of Cretheus. She fell in love with Phrixus, the son of Athamas and Nephele, but he rejected her love and so she accused him before Athamas. Athamas wanted to kill his son but Nephele saved him.

She is also called Demodice.

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References

Sources

  • Hyginus. Poetical Astronomy, 2.20.
  • Scholiast on Pindar's Pythian Odes, 4.288.
  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.