Mideia

In Greek mythology, Mideia or Midea (Ancient Greek: Μιδειη) may refer to:

Midea, a Phrygian slave, mother of Licymnius by Electryon.[1]
Midea, a nymph, mother of Aspledon by Poseidon.[2] The town Lebadea was believed to have previously been named Mideia after her.[3]
Midea, one of the Danaïdes. She married (and killed) Antimachus, son of Aegyptus.[4]
Midea, daughter of Aloeus and eponym of a city in Argos.[5]

Notes

Apollodorus 2.4.5
Stephanus of Byzantium, Ethnica s.v. Aspledon
Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 9.38.9 - 9.39.1, citing Chersias
Hyginus, Fabulae 170

Stephanus of Byzantium, Ethnica s.v. Mideia

References

Apollodorus, The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. ISBN 0-674-99135-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
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.
Pausanias, Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. ISBN 0-674-99328-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
Stephanus of Byzantium, Stephani Byzantii Ethnicorum quae supersunt, edited by August Meineike (1790-1870), published 1849. A few entries from this important ancient handbook of place names have been translated by Brady Kiesling. Online version at the Topos Text Project.

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