Thrace (; Modern ''Thráki'';) or Thraike in

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, was the eponymous heroine and sorceress of

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. She was the daughter of

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and Parthenope, and sister of Europa. Some of her half-sisters were

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and

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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 ...

Lycophron Lycophron ( ; ; born about 330–325 BC) was a Hellenistic Greek tragic poet, grammarian, and commentator on comedy, to whom the poem ''Alexandra'' is attributed (perhaps falsely). Life and miscellaneous works He was born at Chalcis in Euboea, a ...

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References

* Grimal, Pierre, ''The Dictionary of Classical Mythology'', Wiley-Blackwell, 1996. Greek mythological witches Oceanids Children of Oceanus Mythological Thracian women {{Greek-deity-stub