Thelxinoë

In Greek mythology, Thelxinoë /θɛlkˈsɪnoʊ.iː/[1] (Greek: Θελξινόη, translit. Thelxinóē; English translation: "mind charming") was a name attributed to four individuals.

  • Thelxinoë, one of the sirens. Also known as Thelxiope or Thelxiepia.[2]
  • Thelxinoë, one of the four later recognized muses in Greek tradition. She and her sisters Aoede, Arche and Melete[3] were regarded as daughters of Zeus by Plusia.[4] She was linked with the charming of the mind as a Muse. The moon of Jupiter Thelxinoe is named after her.
  • Thelxinoë, one of Semele's attendants.[5]
  • Thelxinoëa, also Thelxionoea or Thelxineia, one of the so-called Praxidicae (the other two were Alacomenia and Aulis), daughters of King Ogyges of Boeotia.[6]

Notes

  1. ^ Noah Webster (1884) A Practical Dictionary of the English Language
  2. ^ Hesiod, Ehoiai fr. 47; Chaerilus ap. Natalis Comes 7. 13, p. 748
  3. ^ Cicero, De Natura Deorum 3.21
  4. ^ Aratus ap. Gyraldus, Syntagma 7, p. 260
  5. ^ Nonnus, 8.178
  6. ^ Suda s.v. Praxidike

References

  • Hesiod, Catalogue of Women from Homeric Hymns, Epic Cycle, Homerica translated by Evelyn-White, H G. Loeb Classical Library Volume 57. London: William Heinemann, 1914. Online version at theio.com
  • Marcus Tullius Cicero, Nature of the Gods from the Treatises of M.T. Cicero translated by Charles Duke Yonge (1812-1891), Bohn edition of 1878. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
  • Marcus Tullius Cicero, De Natura Deorum. O. Plasberg. Leipzig. Teubner. 1917. Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
  • Nonnus of Panopolis, Dionysiaca translated by William Henry Denham Rouse (1863-1950), from the Loeb Classical Library, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1940. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
  • Nonnus of Panopolis, Dionysiaca. 3 Vols. W.H.D. Rouse. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1940-1942. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.


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