In Greek mythology, Pompholyge (Ancient Greek: Πομφολύγη, romanized: Pompholúgē) 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.
Notes
Notes
- 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.)
- Apollodorus, 1.2.2
References
References
- Robert L. Fowler, Early Greek Mythography. Volume 2: Commentary. Oxford University Press. 2013.