Libya (mythology)

In Greek mythology, '''Libya''', '''Libye''', '''Lybie''' or '''Lybee''' ({{langx|grc|{{linktext|Λιβύη}}|Libúē}} or {{langx|grc|Λυβίη|Lybiē|label=none}}) was a name shared by two individuals:

* Libya, daughter of the Titan Oceanus and Pompholyge, and the sister of Asia.<ref>Tzetzes ad Lycophron, [https://archive.org/details/isaakioukaiiann00mlgoog/page/864/mode/1up?view=theater 894]; Andron of Halicarnassus [https://books.google.com/books?id=j0nRE4C2WBgC&pg=PA42 fr. 7 Fowler] = ''FGrHist'' 10 F 7 (Fowler 2000, [https://books.google.com/books?id=j0nRE4C2WBgC&pg=PA42 p. 42]; Fowler 2013, [https://books.google.com/books?id=scd8AQAAQBAJ&pg=PA13 p. 13]; Bouzek and Graninger, [https://books.google.com/books?id=cMcvCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA12 p. 12]. Fowler 2013, p. 15, calls Pompholyge, a name found nowhere else, an ''ad hoc'' invention.)</ref> In one account, Libya was the consort of the sea god Triton<ref>Apollonius of Rhodes, 4.1323, 1358 & 1742</ref> and by him the mother of various nymphs, probably including the Tritonian nymph who bore Nasamon and Caphaurus to Amphitemis.<ref>Apollonius of Rhodes, 4.1495–1450</ref> * Libya, a princess of Egypt as the daughter of King Epaphus. She became the mother of Belus and Agenor by Poseidon, the god of the sea.<ref>Hyginus, ''Fabulae'' 160</ref> Some sources describe her as the mother of Lamia.<ref name="scholium">Scholium from the Byzantine-Hellenistic period to Aristophanes, ''Peace'' 758, quoted by Ogden (2013b), [https://books.google.com/books?id=bFwWDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA99 p. 98]</ref><ref>Diodorus Siculus, 20.41.3-6; Scholia to Aristophanes, ''The Wasps'' 1035; Commentary 37 to Heraclitus the Allegorist.</ref> The ancient Greeks considered her the origin of the name of the place Libya.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Mitchell|first=Lynette G.|date=2001|title=Euboean Io|journal=The Classical Quarterly|volume=51|issue=2|pages=339–352|doi=10.1093/cq/51.2.339|issn=1471-6844|url=https://ore.exeter.ac.uk/repository/handle/10036/49253|hdl=10036/49253|hdl-access=free}}</ref>

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== References == * Apollonius Rhodius, ''Argonautica'' translated by Robert Cooper Seaton (1853–1915), R. C. Loeb Classical Library Volume 001. London, William Heinemann Ltd, 1912. [https://topostext.org/work/126 Online version at the Topos Text Project.] *Apollonius Rhodius, ''Argonautica''. George W. Mooney. London. Longmans, Green. 1912. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0227 Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library]. *Gaius Julius Hyginus, ''Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus'' translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. [https://topostext.org/work/206 Online version at the Topos Text Project.] * Fowler, Robert L., ''Early Greek Mythography. Volume 2: Commentary.'' Oxford University Press. Great Clarendon Street, Oxford, OX2 6DP, United Kingdom. 2013. {{ISBN|978-0-19-814741-1}} * Tzetzes, John, ''Lycophronis Alexandra. Vol. II: Scholia Continens'', edited by Eduard Scheer, Berlin, Weidmann, 1881. [https://archive.org/details/lycophronisalexa02lycouoft/page/n5/mode/2up?view=theater Internet Archive]. * Aristophanes, ''Peace'' from ''The Complete Greek Drama, vol. 2.'' Eugene O'Neill, Jr. New York. Random House. 1938. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0038 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.] * Aristophanes, ''Aristophanes Comoediae'' edited by F.W. Hall and W.M. Geldart, vol. 1. F.W. Hall and W.M. Geldart. Oxford. Clarendon Press, Oxford. 1907. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0037 Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library].

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