Phanothea

The wife of the Athenian Icarius. She was said to have invented the hexameter.1 Porphyrits designates her as the Delphic priestess of Apollo (ἡ Δελφοῦ).2

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References

Notes

  1. Clement of Alexandria. Stromata i, p. 366.
  2. Stobaeus. Florilegium xxi, 26.

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.