In Greek mythology, Thyia (/ˈθaɪə/; Ancient Greek: Θυία Thuia derived from the verb θύω "to sacrifice") was a Phthian princess as the daughter of King Deucalion of Thessaly.

Biography

Thyia's mother was Pyrrha, daughter of Epimetheus and Pandora. She was the sister of Hellen and Pandora II, and possibly of Amphictyon, Protogeneia, Melantho (Melanthea) and Candybus.

Like her other sisters, Thyia bore to Zeus sons namely, Magnes and Makednos (the claimed ancestor of the Macedonians).^[1] Her account was according to a quotation from Hesiod's lost work the Catalogue of Women, preserved in the De Thematibus of Constantine Porphyrogenitus and in Stephanus of Byzantium's Ethnika.^[2]

Notes

References

• Gantz, Timothy, Early Greek Myth: A Guide to Literary and Artistic Sources, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996, Two volumes: ISBN 978-0-8018-5360-9 (Vol. 1), ISBN 978-0-8018-5362-3 (Vol. 2).
• Hesiod, Catalogue of Women, in Hesiod: The Shield, Catalogue of Women, Other Fragments, edited and translated by Glenn W. Most, Loeb Classical Library No. 503, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2007, 2018. ISBN 978-0-674-99721-9. Online version at Harvard University Press.assics-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/view/LCL503/2018/volume.xml Online version at Harvard University Press].
• Merkelbach, R., and M. L. West, Fragmenta Hesiodea, Clarendon Press Oxford, 1967. ISBN 978-0-19-814171-6.
• Pertusi, Agostino, Costantino Porfirogenito De thematibus, Biblioteca apostolica vaticana, 1952. Google Books.
• 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.