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Thronia

In Greek mythology, the name Thronia or Thronie (Θρωνίη) may refer to:Thronia, daughter of King Belus of Egypt, and the mother of Arabus, the eponym of Arabia, by Hermes. Thronia, a Naiad nymph, mother of Abderus by Poseidon and the eponym of the city Thronion in Opuntian Locris. Her father was possibly the river god Nestus in Bistonia and thus probably the sister of Callirhoe.

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In Greek mythology, the name Thronia (Ancient Greek: Θρωνία) or Thronie (Θρωνίη) may refer to:

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  1. Hesiod, Catalogue of Women fr. 88 Most, pp. 172, 173 [= Strabo, Geographica 1.2.34].
  2. Pindar, Paean 2.1–2 (fr. 52b S–M). The Bibliotheca (2.5.8) says that Abderus was the son of Hermes.
  3. Scholia on Homer, Iliad 2.533
  4. Hesiod, Theogony 341.
  5. Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Bistonia (Billerbeck, pp. 352–353).
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