Greek mythology Greek mythology is the body of myths originally told by the Ancient Greece, ancient Greeks, and a genre of ancient Greek folklore, today absorbed alongside Roman mythology into the broader designation of classical mythology. These stories conc ...

, Erythia or Erytheia or Erythea (

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: Ερυθεια from ''erythos'' "red") may refer to the following figures: * Erythia, also called Erytheis (Ερυθεις), one of the

Hesperides In Greek mythology, the Hesperides (; , ) are the nymphs of evening and golden light of sunsets, who were the "Daughters of the Evening" or "Nymphs of the West". They were also called the Atlantides () from their reputed father, Atlas (mytholog ...

(

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s of the West). * Erythia, daughter of

Geryon In Greek mythology, Geryon ( ; , genitive ), also Geryone (, or ), son of Chrysaor and Callirrhoe, the grandson of Medusa and the nephew of Pegasus, was a fearsome giant who dwelt on the island Erytheia of the mythic Hesperides in the far ...

and mother, by

Hermes Hermes (; ) is an Olympian deity in ancient Greek religion and mythology considered the herald of the gods. He is also widely considered the protector of human heralds, travelers, thieves, merchants, and orators. He is able to move quic ...

, of

Norax Norax () was an ancient mythological hero of the Nuragic Sardinian mythology. He was the son of the god Hermes and Eriteide (Erytheia), who was the daughter of Geryon. Norax appears in the writings of Pausanias, Sallust and Solinus. Mythology ...

, the man who led the

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. Pausanias
10.17.5
/ref> * Erythia, the home of the above three-bodied giant Geryon.

Classic Literature Sources

Chronological listing of classical literature sources for Erytheia: *

Euripides Euripides () was a Greek tragedy, tragedian of classical Athens. Along with Aeschylus and Sophocles, he is one of the three ancient Greek tragedians for whom any plays have survived in full. Some ancient scholars attributed ninety-five plays to ...

, ''Heracles Mad'', 420 ff (trans. Coleridge) (Greek tragedy C5th BC) *

Aristotle Aristotle (; 384–322 BC) was an Ancient Greek philosophy, Ancient Greek philosopher and polymath. His writings cover a broad range of subjects spanning the natural sciences, philosophy, linguistics, economics, politics, psychology, a ...

, ''Meteorologica'' 2. 3 359a 26 ff (ed. Ross trans. Webster) (Greek philosopher C4th BC) *

Isocrates Isocrates (; ; 436–338 BC) was an ancient Greek rhetorician, one of the ten Attic orators. Among the most influential Greek rhetoricians of his time, Isocrates made many contributions to rhetoric and education through his teaching and writte ...

, ''Helen'' 24 ff (trans. Norlin) (Greek philosophy C4th BC) *

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, ''De Mirabilibus Auscultationibus'' 843b 133 (ed. Ross trans. Dowdall) (Greek rhetoric C4th to 3rd BC) * Pseudo-Aristotle, ''De Mirabilibus Auscultationibus'' 844a * Fragment,

Stesichorus Stesichorus (; , ''Stēsichoros''; c. 630 – 555 BC) was a Greek Greek lyric, lyric poet native of Metauros (Gioia Tauro today). He is best known for telling epic stories in lyric metres, and for some ancient traditions about his life, such as hi ...

, The Tale of Geryon 5 (trans. Edmond 1920, ''Lyra Graeca'' Vol 2) (Greek commentary C1st to C1st AD) * Strabo, ''Geography'' 3. 2. 11 (trans. Jones) (Greek geography C1st BC to C1st AD) * Strabo, ''Geography'' 3. 5. 4 * Lucian, ''The Dance'' 56 ff (trans. Harmon) (Assyrian satirist C2nd AD) * Oppian, ''Cynegetica'' 2. 109 ff (trans. Mair) (Greek poetry C2nd AD) * Hippolytus, ''Philosophumena'' 5 The Ophite Heresies 25 (''Philosophumena by Hippolytus'', Legge 1921 Vol 1 p. 172) (Christian theology C3rd AD) *

Tzetzes John Tzetzes (; , Constantinople – 1180, Constantinople) was a Byzantine poet and grammarian who lived at Constantinople in the 12th century. He is known for making significant contributions in preserving much valuable information from ancien ...

, ''Chiliades or Book of Histories'' 2.4 330 ff (trans. Untila et al.) (Greco-Byzantine history C12th AD) * Tzetzes, ''Chiliades or Book of Histories'' 2.4 337 ff * Tzetzes, ''Chiliades or Book of Histories'' 2.4 500 * Tzetzes, ''Chiliades or Book of Histories'' 4.18 351 * Tzetzes, ''Chiliades or Book of Histories'' 5.38 879 Classical literature source for Erytheis: * Apollonius Rhodius, ''Argonautica'' 4. 1422 ff (trans. Coleridge) (Greek epic poetry C3rd BC) Chronological listing of classical literature sources for Erythia: * Pliny, ''Natural History'' 4. 36. (trans. Bostock & Riley) (Roman historian C1st AD) * Scholiast on Pliny, ''Natural History'' 4. 36 (''The Natural History of Pliny'' trans. Bostock & Riley 1855 Vol 1 p. 369) * Silius, ''Punica'' 16.193 ff (trans. Duff) (Roman epic poetry C1st AD) * Pseudo-Apollodorus, ''The Library'' 1. 6. 1 ff (trans. Frazer) (Greek mythography C2nd AD) * Pseudo-Apollodorus, ''The Library'' 2. 5. 10 ff * Pseudo-Apollodorus, ''The Library'' 2. 5. 10 (trans. Frazer) (Greek mythography C2nd AD) * Scholiast on Pseudo-Apollodorus, ''The Library'' 2. 5. 10 (''Apollodorus The Library'' trans. Frazer 1921 Vol 1 p. 213) * Pseudo-Apollodorus, ''The Librar''y 2. 5. 11 ff (trans. Frazer) (Greek mythography C2nd AD) Chronological listing of classical literature sources for Erythea: * Hesiod, ''Theogony'' 289 ff (trans. Evelyn-White) (Greek epic poetry C8th to C7th BC) * Hesiod, ''Theogony'' 983 * Herodotus, ''Herodotus'' 4. 8. 1 ff (trans. Godley) (Greek history C5th BC) * Parthenius, ''The Love Romances'', The Story of Celtine 30. 1 ff (trans. Gaselee) (Greek poetry C1st BC) * Propertius, ''Elegies'' 4. 11. 1 ff (trans. Butler) (Latin poetry C1st BC) * Ovid, ''Fasti'' 5. 645 ff (trans. Frazer) (Roman epic poetry C1st BC to C1st AD) * Appian, ''Roman History'', The Civil Wars 2. 39 ff (trans. White) (Greek history C2nd AD) * Pausanias, ''Description of Greece'' 4. 36. 3 ff (trans. Frazer) (Greek travelogue C2nd AD) * Pausanias, ''Description of Greece'' 5. 10. 2. 9 ff * Pausanias, ''Description of Greece'' 10 17. 4 * Athenaeus, ''Banquet of the Learned'' 11. 38 ff (trans. Yonge) (Greek rhetoric C2nd AD to C3rd AD) * Athenaeus, ''Banquet of the Learned'' 11. 39 (trans. Yonge) (Greek rhetoric C2nd AD to C3rd AD)

Notes

References

* 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.
Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
* Pausanias, ''Graeciae Descriptio.'' ''3 vols''. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903.
Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library
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