Menodice
In Greek mythology, Menodice or Menodike (Ancient Greek: Μηνοδίκη, romanized: Mēnodíkē) was the nymph daughter of Orion[1], thus the (half)sister to Menippe and Metioche.[2] She was the mother of Hylas by King Theiodamas of the Dryopians.[1] In some accounts, Hylas' parent was Heracles, Euphemus or King Ceyx of Trachis.[3]
Compare Menodice with Mecionice, another daughter of Orion, who gave birth to Euphemus to Poseidon.[4][5] They might be the same woman who mothered the heroes Euphemus and Hylas to Theiodamas - this could be supported by the stories that recall Euphemus who became the husband of Laonome, half-sister of Heracles have Hylas as his arms-bearer.[6]
Notes
- ^ a b Hyginus, Fabulae 14
- ^ Antoninus Liberalis, 25
- ^ Scholia ad Theocritus, Idylls 13.7; Antoninus Liberalis, 26
- ^ Hesiod, Megalai_Ehoiai fr. 253 Merkelbach & West (1967) in Scholia ad Pindar, Pythian Ode 4.35; Tzetzes ad Lycophron, 886
- ^ Vollmer, Wilhelm. (1874). Wörterbuch der Mythologie. Stuttgart, p. 324.
- ^ Tzetzes, Chiliades 2.43; ad Lycophron, 886
References
- Antoninus Liberalis, The Metamorphoses of Antoninus Liberalis translated by Francis Celoria (Routledge 1992). Online version at the Topos Text Project.
- Gaius Julius Hyginus, Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
- Scholia to Lycophron's Alexandra, marginal notes by Isaak and Ioannis Tzetzes and others from the Greek edition of Eduard Scheer (Weidmann 1881). Online version at the Topos Text Project.. Greek text available on Archive.org
- Tzetzes, John, Histories or Chiliades unedited translation by Ana Untila (Book I), Gary Berkowitz (II-IV), Konstantinos Ramiotis (V-VI), Vasiliki Dogani (VII-VIII), Jonathan Alexander (IX-X), Muhammad Syarif Fadhlurrahman (XI), and Nikolaos Giallousis (XII-XIII), with translation adjustments by Brady Kiesling affecting about 15 percent of the total . These translations are based on the 1826 Greek edition of Theophilus Kiesslingius. Online version at the Topos Text Project.