In Greek mythology, Cinna was the wife of King Phoroneus of Argos by whom she became the mother of Apis and Niobe.[1] Otherwise, the consort(s) of Phoroneus was identified either as the nymph Cerdo[2] or Teledice[3] (or Laodice)[4] also a nymph, or Perimede,[5] or first to Peitho and second to Europe.[6]

Note

  1. ↑ Hyginus, Fabulae 145
  2. ↑ Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 2.21.1
  3. ↑ Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 2.1.1
  4. ↑ Tzetzes on Lycophron 177
  5. ↑ Scholia on Pindar, Olympian Ode 3.28
  6. ↑ Scholia on Euripides, Orestes 932

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.
  • 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.
  • Pseudo-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.


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