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Panopea

In Greek mythology, Panopea or Panope (Πανόπη) may refer to various characters. The names mean 'panorama' or means 'of the beautiful husband'.Panope or Poenope, the Nereid of the sea panorama. She was one of the 50 marine-nymph daughters of the 'Old Man of the Sea' Nereus and the Oceanid Doris. Panope, together with Doto and Galatea, escorted her sister Thetis out of the sea to her wedding with Peleus. Later on, Panope and her other sisters appeared to Thetis when she cries out in sympathy for the grief of Achilles for his slain friend Patroclus. Panopea, Panopeia or Panopaea, another 'virgin' Nereid who together with her sisters, Thetis, Nesaea, Spio, Thalia, Cymodoce and Melite, helped the hero Aeneas and his crew during a storm. She may be the same with her above supposed sister who was doubled by Hyginus in his account. Panope, a Thespian princess as one of the 50 daughters of King Thespius and Megamede or by one of his many wives. When Heracles hunted and ultimately slew the Cithaeronian lion, Panope with her other sisters, except for one, all lay with the hero in a night, a week or for 50 days as what their father strongly desired it to be. Panope bore Heracles a son, Threpsippas.

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In Greek mythology, Panopea (Ancient Greek: Πανόπεια Panopeia) or Panope (Πανόπη) may refer to various characters. The names mean 'panorama' or means 'of the beautiful husband'.1

  • Panope or Poenope,2 the Nereid of the sea panorama.1 She was one of the 50 marine-nymph daughters of the 'Old Man of the Sea' Nereus and the Oceanid Doris.3 Panope, together with Doto and Galatea, escorted her sister Thetis out of the sea to her wedding with Peleus.4 Later on, Panope and her other sisters appeared to Thetis when she cries out in sympathy for the grief of Achilles for his slain friend Patroclus.5
  • Panopea, Panopeia6 or Panopaea2, another 'virgin' Nereid7 who together with her sisters, Thetis, Nesaea, Spio, Thalia, Cymodoce and Melite, helped the hero Aeneas and his crew during a storm.8 She may be the same with her above supposed sister who was doubled by Hyginus in his account.
  • Panope, a Thespian princess as one of the 50 daughters of King Thespius and Megamede9 or by one of his many wives.10 When Heracles hunted and ultimately slew the Cithaeronian lion,11 Panope with her other sisters, except for one,12 all lay with the hero in a night,13 a week14 or for 50 days15 as what their father strongly desired it to be.16 Panope bore Heracles a son, Threpsippas.17
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  1. Bane, Theresa (2013). Encyclopedia of Fairies in World Folklore and Mythology. McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers. p. 265. ISBN 9780786471119.
  2. Hyginus, Fabulae Preface (Latin ed. Micyllus)
  3. Homer, Iliad 18.45; Apollodorus, 1.2.7
  4. Valerius Flaccus, 1.130 ff.
  5. Homer, Iliad 18.39-51
  6. Kerényi, Carl (1951). The Gods of the Greeks. London: Thames and Hudson. p. 64.
  7. Hesiod, Theogony 250
  8. Virgil, Aeneid 5.825
  9. Apollodorus, 2.4.10; Tzetzes, Chiliades 2.222
  10. Diodorus Siculus, 4.29.2
  11. Apollodorus, 2.4.9
  12. Pausanias, 9.27.6; Diodorus Siculus, 4.29.3, f.n. 51
  13. Pausanias, 9.27.6–7; Gregorius Nazianzenus, Orat. IV, Contra Julianum I (Migne S. Gr. 35.661)
  14. Athenaeus, 13.4 with Herodorus as the authority; Diodorus Siculus, 4.29.3, f.n. 51
  15. Apollodorus, 2.4.10; Diodorus Siculus, 4.29.3; Tzetzes, Chiliades 2.224
  16. Apollodorus, 2.4.10; Diodorus Siculus, 4.29.3
  17. Apollodorus, 2.7.8
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