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| Name | Reference | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Acaste | Theogony,356 | No Information |
| Admete | Theogony,349 | No Information |
| Aethra |
Only Roman sources: Hyginius and Ovid |
Mother of Hyas and the Hyades by Atlas. See Pleione below. |
| Amphiro | Theogony,350 | No Information |
| Amphitrite | Apollodonus 1.2.2, 1.2.7, 1.4.5;Hesiod 243 |
She is a Nereid but an Oceanid by marriage to Poseidon See Greek Mythhology |
| Argia | Hyginus Fabulae 143,145 | Argia married the river god Inachus and had by him Phoroneus and Io |
| Asia | Apollodonus 1.2.2-1.2.4 | Wife of the Titan Iapetus, and mother of Menoetius, Atlas, Prometheus and Epimetheus |
| Beroe | Nonnus and Virgil | See Greek Mythhology |
| Callirrhoe | Apollodonus 2.5.10; Dionysius of Halicarnassus, The Roman Antiquities 1.27.2; Hesiod's Theogony 350, 979 | Mother of Geryon by Chrysaor. In one of his 12 labors Herakles killed Geryon and stole his cattle. |
| Caphira | Diodorus Siculus, The Library of History 5.55.1 | Caphira is said to have nurtured, together with the Telechines the child Poseidon, whom Rhea had committed to their care |
| Cerceis | Hesiod Theogony 350 | No information. |
| Chryseis | Hesiod Theogony 350 | No Information other than the name. |
| Clio | Virgil Georgics 4.341 | No Information |
| Clymene | Hesiod Theogony 350, 506 | ??? |
| Clytia | Hesiod Theogony 350, Ovid Metamorpheses 4.234 and 4.268 | Clytia told Orchanus, ruler of Persian cities, that his daughter Leucothoe was having an affair with the son god Helios. Clytia tattled because she was jealous and quite taken with Helos herself. Unfortunately Orchanus had his daughter period alive for her indiscretion. |
| Daira | Pausinias History of Greece 1.38.7 | She made love to Hermes and Eleusis was the offspring |
| Dione | Hesiod Theogony 350, Homer Illiad 5.370 | See Greek Mythhology |
| Doris | Apollodonius 1.2.7; Hesiod 350; Euripedes, Orestes 362 | See Greek Mythhology |
| Electra | Apollodonus 1.2.2-6; HesiodThegony 266; Nonnus 26.362 | See Greek Mythhology |
| Ephyra | Pausinias 2.1.1 | Ephyra was the first to dwell in Corinth. |
| Eudore | Hesiod Theogony 350ff | Just her name is mentioned. |
| Europe | Hesiod Theogony 350ff | Her name is all that is known about her. |
| Eurynome | Apollodonus 1.2.2, 1.3.1, 3.12.6; Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.503; HesiodTheogony 907; Nonnus 2.573 | The Greeks were attempting to assimilate the supreme creation Goddess of the people they had found and intermingled with when they migrated into the Greek penisula. A more true account of her is found on Mythhome at Eurynome and Orphion |
| Galaxaure | Hesiod Theogony 350ff | Her name is all that is known about her. |
| Hippo | Hesiod Theogony 350ff | Her name is all that is known about her. |
| Ianira | Hesiod Theogony 350ff | Her name is all that is known about her. |
| Ianthe | Hesiod Theogony 350ff | Her name is all that is known about her. |
| Idyia | Apollodonus 1.9.1; Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 3.240; Hesiod Theogony 350ff., 960 | Idya is called the youngest among the OCEANIDS. She married King Aeetes of Colchis and became mother of Chalciope and Medea. And Chalciope, whom some call Iophossa, married Phrixus, the man who came to Colchis flying on the Ram with the Golden Fleece |
| Melia | Apollodonus 2.1.1-3; Pausinias 9.10.6 | Melia consorted with the river god Inachus and gave birth to Aegialeus, the first inhabitant of Sicyon, Phoroneus, the first man, and Io [see also Argia above in this list]. Melia was also loved by Apollo and she gave birth to the seer Tenerus and Ismenus |
| Meliboea | Apollodonus 3.8.1 | Meliboea married Pelasgus, after whom the inhabitants of the Peloponnesus were called Pelasgians. They became the parents of impious Lycaon. |
| Melabosis | Hesiod Theogony 350ff | Her name is all that is known about her. |
| Menestho | Hesiod Theogony 350ff | Her name is all that is known about her. |
| Merope | Hesiod Theogony 350ff | Her name is all that is known about her. |
| Ianthe | Hyginus, Fabulae 154 | Merope married Clymenus, son of Helius, and had children: Phaethon [see also Clymene above in this list], and the girls called Heliades |
| Metis | Apollodonus 1.2.2, 1.3.6; Hesiod Theogony 358, 886ff | See Greek Mythhology |
| Nemesis | Hesiod | See Greek Mythhology |
| Oceanid-X | Hesiod Catalogues of Women and Eoiae 66 | This is the un-named nymph who had Helen by Zeus. It could be Nemesis. |
| Ocyrrhoe | Hesiod Theogony 350ff | Her name is all that is known about her. |
| Pasithoe | Hesiod Theogony 350ff | Her name is all that is known about her. |
| Peitho | Hesiod Theogony 350ff | Her name is all that is known about her. |
| Periboea | Nonnus 48.246. | Periboea married the Titan Lelantus and had by him a daughter Aura. Aura was a Phrygian huntress unacquainted with love when she was ravished by Dionysus while asleep. She had twins but killed one of the children and her son Iacchus she abandonned, but the Maeneds of Eleusis took care of him and honoured him as a god next after the son of Persephone (Zagreus) and after Semele's son (Dionysus). Later the Athenians honoured all the three together. Aura threw herself into the river Sangarius (a river in Asia Minor flowing into the Black Sea) and was transformed into a fountain by Zeus. |
| Perseis. | Apollodonus 1.9.1, 3.1.2; Cicero The Nature of the Gods 3.48; Hesiod Theogony 350ff., 956. | Perseis married Helius an gave birth to King Aeetes of Colchis (Medea's father), Pasiphae (wife of King Minos 2 of Crete) and the witch Circe. |
| Petraea. | Hesiod Theogony 357 | All we know is her name. |
| Philyra | Apollodonus 1.2.4; Hyginus Fabulae 138; Propertius, Elegies 2.1.60; Valerius Flaccus Argonautica 5.152 | Some say that Philyra consorted with Cronos and gave birth to the Centaur Chiron. It is said that when she saw that she had borne a strange species (a Centaur), she asked Zeus to change her into another form, and she was turned into the tree called linden. |
| Pleione | Apollodonus 3.10.1; Hyginus Fabulae 192; Ovid Fasti 5.83 | Pleione married Atlas and gave birth to the Pleiades and the Hyades see also Aethra above in this list. |
| Plexaure | Hesiod Theogony 353 | No Information other than the name. |
| Pluto | Hesiod Theogony 355 | No Information other than the name. |
| Polydora | Hesiod Theogony 354 | No Information other than the name. |
| Prymno | Hesiod Theogony 350 | No Information other than the name. |
| Rhoda | Hesiod Theogony 351 | No Information other than the name. |
| Styx | Apollodonus 1.2.2.-5, 1.3.1; Hesiod Thegony 383ff., 790ff.; Hyginus Preface to Fabulae; Pausinias History of Greece 8.18.2. | See Greek Mythology |
| Telesto | Hesiod Theogony 358 | No Information other than the name. |
| Thoe | Hesiod Theogony 354 | No Information other than the name. |
| Tyche | Hesiod Theogony 350 | See Greek Mythology page |
| Urania | Hesiod Theogony 350 | No Information other than the name. |
| Xanthe | Hesiod Theogony 356 | No Information other than the name. |
| Zeuxo | Hesiod Theogony 352 | No Information other than the name. |
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