Phosphorus

Phosphorus occurs as a surname of several goddesses of light, as Artemis (Diana Lucifera),1 Eos,2 and Hecate.3

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References

Notes

  1. Pausanias. Description of Greece iv, 31.8; Servius on Virgil's Aeneid ii, 116.
  2. Euripides. Ion, 1157.
  3. Euripides. Helen, 569.

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.