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In Greek mythology, '''Orithyia''' or '''Oreithyia''' ({{IPAc-en|ɒr|ᵻ|ˈ|θ|aɪ|.|ə}};<ref>Joseph Emerson Worcester, ''A comprehensive dictionary of the English language'', Boston, 1871, [https://books.google.com/books?id=bpkaAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA480 p. 480], rule 3, where he notes that the pronunciation of such names is not e.g. {{IPAc-en|ɒ|ˌ|r|ɪ|θ|i|ˈ|aɪ|.|ə}} "as in Walker" (see e.g. Walker and Trollope, ''A key to the classical pronunciation'' etc., London, 1830, [https://books.google.com/books?id=s2sUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA123 p. 123])</ref> {{langx|grc|Ὠρείθυια|Ōreíthyia}}; {{langx|la|Ōrīthyia}}; {{Literal translation|mountain-raging' or 'mountain-rushing}}) was the name of the following women: *Orithyia or Orythya,<ref>Hyginus, ''Fabulae'' Preface (Latin ed. Micyllus; Scheffero)</ref> the Nereid of raging seas<ref name=":02">{{Cite book|last=Bane|first=Theresa|title=Encyclopedia of Fairies in World Folklore and Mythology|publisher=McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers|year=2013|isbn=9780786471119|page=262}}</ref> and one of the 50 marine-nymph daughters of the 'Old Man of the Sea' Nereus and the Oceanid Doris.<ref>Homer, ''Iliad'' 18.48</ref> She and her other sisters appear to Thetis when she cries out in sympathy for the grief of Achilles at the slaying of Patroclus.<ref name="Hom">Homer, ''Iliad'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0134%3Abook%3D18%3Acard%3D22 18.39-51]</ref> *Orithyia, a daughter of Cecrops, wife of Makednos and mother of Europus.<ref>Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. ''Eurōpos''</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/1216.html |title=The Ancient Library - Europus |access-date=2007-11-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070905110424/http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/1216.html |archive-date=2007-09-05 |url-status=usurped }}</ref> *Orithyia, a daughter of Erechtheus, who was abducted by Boreas.<ref>Apollodorus, 3.15.1</ref> * Orithyia, a nymph, who was either the mother of Cinyras by Belus or the wife of Cinyras and mother of Smyrna/Myrrha (thus doublet of Cenchreis).<ref>Antoninus Liberalis, [https://topostext.org/work/216#34 34]. The wording of the ancient Greek text is ambiguous.</ref> *Orithyia, queen of the Amazons.<ref>Apollodorus, 2.5.9</ref>
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== References ==
* Antoninus Liberalis, ''The Metamorphoses of Antoninus Liberalis'' translated by Francis Celoria (Routledge 1992). [https://topostext.org/work/216 Online version at the Topos Text Project.] * 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. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0022 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.] [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0021 Greek text available from the same website]. * 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.] * 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|}}. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0134 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.] * Homer, ''Homeri Opera'' in five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920. {{ISBN|978-0198145318|}}. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0133 Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library]. * 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. [https://topostext.org/work/241 Online version at the Topos Text Project.]
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