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Pompholyge

In Greek mythology, Pompholyge was the mother of Asia and Libye by Oceanus, the Titan god of the sea. Asia is often counted as one of the Oceanids, so Pompholyge might be a different name for Tethys, often depicted as the mother of these ocean deities.

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In Greek mythology, Pompholyge (Ancient Greek: Πομφολύγη, romanizedPompholúgē) was the mother of Asia and Libye by Oceanus, the Titan god of the sea.1 Asia is often counted as one of the Oceanids,2 so Pompholyge might be a different name for Tethys, often depicted as the mother of these ocean deities.

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  1. Tzetzes ad Lycophron, 894; 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. Apollodorus, 1.2.2
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References

  • Robert L. Fowler, Early Greek Mythography. Volume 2: Commentary. Oxford University Press. 2013.