Onca

A surname of Athena, which she derived from the town of Oncae in Boeotia, where she had a sanctuary.

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References

Sources

  • Aeschylus. Seven Against Thebes, 166, 489.
  • Pausanias. Description of Greece ix, 12.2.
  • Scholiast on Euripides' Phoenician Women, 1062.
  • 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.