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Clytie

In Greek mythology, the name Clytie or Clytia may refer to:Clytie (Oceanid), known for her unrequited love for Helios. Out of jealousy, Clytie arranged the death of Leucothoe, Helios' lover. Clytie, daughter of Pandareus and sister of Cameiro. Cameiro and Clytie lost their parents to the wrath of gods and were reared by Aphrodite. They received gifts from other Olympic goddesses as well: wisdom and beauty from Hera, high stature from Artemis, skill in handiwork from Athena. When Aphrodite left for Olympus to arrange for the sisters to get happily married in the future, the girls, left without supervision, were abducted by the Harpies and given by them to the Erinyes. Clytie, daughter of Merops, wife of Eurypylus of Cos, mother of Chalcon and Antagoras. She received Demeter as guest. Clytie, daughter of Amphidamas and possible mother of Pelops by Tantalus. Clytie, possible mother of Myrtilus by Hermes. Clytie, one of the Niobids. Clytie, in one source called mother of Thalpius by Eurytus instead of Theraephone. Clytie or Phthia, concubine of Amyntor, the cause of a conflict between him and his son Phoenix. Clytia, wife of Aeeta (Aeetes) and mother of Medea. Otherwise, the wife of Aeetes was called Ipsia, Idyia, Asterodeia, Hecate, Neaera or Eurylyte.

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In Greek mythology, the name Clytie (Ancient Greek: Κλυτίη, Ionic) or Clytia (Κλυτία, Attic and other dialects) may refer to:

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  1. E., Bell, Robert (1993). Women of classical mythology : a biographical dictionary. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0195079779. OCLC 26255961.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  2. Homer, Odyssey 20.66–79
  3. Pausanias, 10.30.12
  4. Theocritus, Idyll 7.5 with scholia
  5. Scholia ad Euripides, Orestes 11 from Pherecydes, fr. 93
  6. Robert Graves. The Greek Myths, section 108 (1960)
  7. Hyginus, De astronomia 2.13.4
  8. Fowler 2013, p. 367; Pherecydes fr. 126 Fowler 2000, p. 342 = FGrHist 3 F 126 = Scholia on Euripides, Phoenician Women 159.
  9. Tzetzes, Homeric Allegories Prologue, 570
  10. Tzetzes ad Lycophron, 417
  11. Scholia on Homer, Iliad 9.448
  12. Hyginus, Fabulae Preface
  13. ?Hyginus, Fabulae 23
  14. Apollodorus, 1.9.23
  15. Apollonius of Rhodes, 3.241
  16. ?Diodorus Siculus, 4.45.1
  17. Scholia on Apollonius Rhodius, 3.242
  18. Scholia on Apollonius Rhodius, l.c.
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