Maera

"Sparkling." A daughter of Atlas, was married to Tegeates, the son of Lycaon. Her tomb was shown both at Tegea and Mantineia in Arcadia, and Pausanias thinks that she was the same as the Maera whom Odysseus saw in Hades.

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References

Sources

  • Pausanias. Description of Greece viii, 12.4, 48.4, 53.1.
  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.
  • Völcker, K. H. W. (1824). Die Mythologie Des Japetischen Geschlechtes, p. 114.

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