# Polybule

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In [Greek mythology](/source/Greek_mythology), '''Polybule''' was the [Boeotia](/source/Boeotia)n mother of the [Argonaut](/source/Argonauts) [Leitus](/source/Leitus) by [Alector](/source/Alector).<ref>[Diodorus Siculus](/source/Diodorus_Siculus), ''[Bibliotheca historica](/source/Bibliotheca_historica)'' 4.67.7</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=[Tzetzes](/source/Tzetzes)|first=John|title=Allegories of the Iliad|publisher=Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library|year=2015|isbn=978-0-674-96785-4|location=Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England|pages=41, Prologue 534|translator-last=Goldwyn|translator-first=Adam|translator-last2=Kokkini|translator-first2=Dimitra}}</ref> Alternatively, Leitus parents were identified to be [Lacritus](/source/Lacritus_(mythology)) and [Cleobule](/source/Cleobule)<ref>[Hyginus](/source/Hyginus_(Fabulae)), ''Fabulae'' 97</ref> or an [earth-born](/source/Autochthon_(ancient_Greece)), thus a son of [Gaea](/source/Gaia).<ref>[Euripides](/source/Euripides), ''[Iphigenia in Aulis](/source/Iphigenia_in_Aulis)'' 259</ref>

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== References ==

* [Diodorus Siculus](/source/Diodorus_Siculus), ''The Library of History'' translated by [Charles Henry Oldfather](/source/Charles_Henry_Oldfather). Twelve volumes. [Loeb Classical Library](/source/Loeb_Classical_Library). Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1989. Vol. 3. Books 4.59–8. [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/4D*.html#67.7 Online version at Bill Thayer's Web Site]
* Diodorus Siculus, ''Bibliotheca Historica. Vol 1-2''. Immanel Bekker. Ludwig Dindorf. Friedrich Vogel. in aedibus B. G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1888-1890. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:2008.01.0540 Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library].
* [Euripides](/source/Euripides), ''The Plays of Euripides'', translated by E. P. Coleridge. Volume II. London. George Bell and Sons. 1891. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0108 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.]
*Euripides, ''Euripidis Fabulae.'' ''vol. 3''. Gilbert Murray. Oxford. Clarendon Press, Oxford. 1913. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0107 Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library].
*[Gaius Julius Hyginus](/source/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.]
*[Tzetzes, John](/source/John_Tzetzes), ''Allegories of the Iliad'' translated by Goldwyn, Adam J. and Kokkini, Dimitra. Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library, Harvard University Press, 2015. {{ISBN|978-0-674-96785-4}}

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