Leiagore (mythology)
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In Greek mythology, Leiagore or Leiagora[1] (Ancient Greek: Ληαγόρη Lêagorê means 'assembler' or addressing the people'[2]) was the Nereid of assembling (fish or navies). She was one of the 50 marine-nymph daughters of the 'Old Man of the Sea' Nereus and the Oceanid Doris.[3]
Notes
[edit]- ^ Kerényi, Carl (1951). The Gods of the Greeks. London: Thames and Hudson. p. 65.
- ^ Bane, Theresa (2013). Encyclopedia of Fairies in World Folklore and Mythology. McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers. p. 212. ISBN 9780786471119.
- ^ Hesiod, Theogony 257
References
[edit]- Hesiod, Theogony from The Homeric Hymns and Homerica with an English Translation by Hugh G. Evelyn-White, Cambridge, MA.,Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1914. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
- Kerényi, Carl, The Gods of the Greeks, Thames and Hudson, London, 1951.