Myrina (mythology)
In Greek mythology, the name Myrina, Myrinne or Myrinna (Ancient Greek: Μύρινα, Μυρίννη, Μυρίννα, lit. 'myrtle branch' or 'wreath of myrtle') may refer to the following individuals:
- Myrina, queen of the Amazons[1]
- Myrina, daughter of Cretheus and wife of Thoas, another possible eponym for the city of Myrina on Lemnos.[2][3]
- Myrina, a woman buried in the Troad. In the Iliad, Trojan forces gather by her grave-mound, which was also known as Batea.[4] She was sometimes identified with Myrina the Amazon.[5][6][7]
- Myrina, a mythological priestess of Aphrodite who became a myrtle tree.
Notes
- ↑ Diodorus Siculus, 3.54-56
- ↑ Scholia ad Apollonius Rhodius, 1.601
- ↑ Etymologicum Magnum 595.20 under Μυρίννα
- ↑ Homer, Iliad 2.813–815
- ↑ Strabo, 12.8.6
- ↑ Tzetzes ad Lycophron, 243 discusses Myrina, a suburb (πολίχνη) of Troy, which is named after "an Amazon called Myrina, who had died there"
- ↑ Bennett, Florence Mary (1912). Religious Cults Associated with the Amazons. Columbia University Press. pp. 2–3.
References
- Diodorus Siculus, The Library of History translated by Charles Henry Oldfather. Twelve volumes. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1989. Vol. 3. Books 4.59–8. Online version at Bill Thayer's Web Site
- Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica. Vol 1-2. Immanel Bekker. Ludwig Dindorf. Friedrich Vogel. in aedibus B. G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1888–1890. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Homer, The Iliad with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, Ph.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924. ISBN 978-0674995796. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Homer, Homeri Opera in five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920. ISBN 978-0198145318. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Realencyclopädie der Classischen Altertumswissenschaft, Band XVI, Halbband 31, Molatzes-Myssi (1933), s. 1095-1097 (in German)
- 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.
- Strabo, The Geography of Strabo. Edition by H.L. Jones. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Strabo, Geographica edited by A. Meineke. Leipzig: Teubner. 1877. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.