Neis

A daughter of Zethus, or of Amphion by Niobe, from whom the Neitian gate at Thebes was believed to have derived its name.1 According to Pausanias Neis was a son of Zethus.2

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References

Notes

  1. Scholiast on Euripides' Phoenician Women, 1104.
  2. Description of Greece ix, 8.3.

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.