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Short description: Two characters in Greek mythology

In Greek mythology, Libya (Ancient Greek: Λιβύη) or Libye, was a name shared by two individuals:

  • Libya, daughter of the Titan Oceanus and Pompholyge, and the sister of Asia.[1] She may be one of the Oceanids and possibly a daughter of Tethys, the consort of Oceanus. In one account, Libya was the consort of the sea god Triton[2] and by him the mother of various nymphs, probably including the Tritonian nymph who bore Nasamon and Caphaurus to Amphitemis.[3]
  • Libya, a princess of Egypt as the daughter of King Epaphus. She became the mother of Belus and Agenor by Poseidon, the god of the sea.[4]

Notes

  1. Andron of Halicarnassus fr. 7 Fowler = FGrHist 10 F 7 (Fowler 2000, p. 42; Fowler 2013, p. 13; Bouzek and Graninger, p. 12. Fowler 2013, p. 15, calls Pompholyge, a name found nowhere else, an ad hoc invention.)
  2. Apollonius of Rhodes, 4.1323, 1358 & 1742
  3. Apollonius of Rhodes, 4.1495–1450
  4. Hyginus, Fabulae 160

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