Thebe

A daughter of Asopus and Metope. By Zeus she became the mother of Zethus. She is said to have given her name to the city of Thebes in Boeotia.

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References

Sources

  • Diodorus Siculis iv, 72.
  • Pausanias. Description of Greece ii, 5.2; v, 22.5.
  • Pindar. Isthmian Odes viii, 37.
  • Pseudo-Apollodorus. The Library iii, 5.6.
  • 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.