Phoebe

"Bright." A surname of Artemis in her capacity as goddess of the moon, the moon being regarded as the female Phoebus or sun.

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References

Sources

  • Ovid. Heroides, xx, 229.
  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.
  • Virgil. Aeneid x, 215.
  • Virgil. Georgics, i, 431.

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