Samia

Samia occurs as a surname of Hera, which is derived from her temple and worship in the island of Samos.1 There was also a tradition that Hera was born or at least brought up in Samos.2

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References

Notes

  1. Herodotus. Histories iii, 60; Pausanias. Description of Greece vii, 4.4; Tacitus. Annals iv, 14.
  2. Pausanias, l.c.; Scholiast on Apollonius Rhodius, i, 187.

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.