Deione

That is, the daughter of Deo or Demeter, is used as a name for Persephone.1 It occurs also as a proper name of the mother of Miletus.2

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References

Notes

  1. Callimachus. Fragment 48.
  2. Ovid. Metamorphoses ix, 442.

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.