Ligeia

In Greek mythology, Ligeia or Ligia (Ancient Greek: Λίγεια means "clear-toned" from ligeios) may refer to two personages:

Ligea, one of the 50 Nereids, sea-nymph daughters of the Old Man of the Sea, Nereus and the Oceanid Doris.[1][2]
Ligeia, one of the Sirens. She was the daughter of the river-god Achelous and the Muse Melpomene[3] or her sister Terpsichore.[4] Ligeia's sisters were Parthenope and Leucosia[5] or Thelxipeia and Peisinoe.[6] She was found ashore of Terina in Bruttium (modern Calabria).[7]

Notes

Hyginus, Fabulae Preface
This was definitely a misinterpretation of Hyginus in Virgil's Georgics 4.336 which suggests that Drymo, Xantho, Ligea and Phyllodoce were naiads, more likely Oceanides, rather than Nereides: ". . .Even from her chamber in the river-deeps, His mother heard: around her spun the nymphs, Milesian wool stained through with hyaline dye, Drymo, Xantho, Ligea, Phyllodoce, Their glossy locks o'er snowy shoulders shed, . . ."
Tzetzes, Chiliades 1.14, line 339 & 348
Tzetzes, Chiliades 6.40
Lycophron, Alexandra 720-726; Eustathius, l.c. cit.; Strabo, Geographica 5.246, 252; Servius commentary on Virgil, Georgics 4.562; Tzetzes, Chiliades 1.14, line 337 & 6.40
Suida, Suda Encyclopedia s.v. Seirenas

Lycophron, Alexandra 724

References

Gaius Julius Hyginus, Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
John Tzetzes, Book of Histories, Book I translated by Ana Untila from the original Greek of T. Kiessling's edition of 1826. Online version at theio.com
Lycophron, The Alexandra translated by Alexander William Mair. Loeb Classical Library Volume 129. London: William Heinemann, 1921. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
Lycophron, Alexandra translated by A.W. Mair. London: William Heinemann; New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1921. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
Publius Vergilius Maro, Bucolics, Aeneid, and Georgics of Vergil. J. B. Greenough. Boston. Ginn & Co. 1900. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.

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