Henioche

A daughter of Creon of Thebes, to whom, and to whose sister Pyrrha, statues were erected at the entrance of the temple of the Ismenian Apollo at Thebes. The wife of Creon, whom Sophocles calls Eurydice, is likewise called by Hesiod1 Henioche.

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References

Notes

  1. Shield of Heracles, 83.

Sources

  • Pausanias. Description of Greece ix, 10.3.
  • 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.