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Coryphe

In Greek mythology, Coryphe was one of the 3,000 Oceanids, water-nymph daughters of the Titans Oceanus and his sister-wife Tethys. In some versions of the myth, she was the mother by Zeus of the fourth Athena who was called Coria by the Arcadians and worshipped as the inventress of chariots.

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In Greek mythology, Coryphe (Ancient Greek: Κορυφή) was one of the 3,000 Oceanids, water-nymph daughters of the Titans Oceanus and his sister-wife Tethys.¹ In some versions of the myth, she was the mother by Zeus of the fourth Athena who was called Coria by the Arcadians and worshipped as the inventress of chariots.²

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Bane, Theresa (2013). Encyclopedia of Fairies in World Folklore and Mythology. McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers. p. 280. ISBN 9780786471119.
Cicero, De Natura Deorum 3.59 Archived 2021-01-09 at the Wayback Machine

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Marcus Tullius Cicero, Nature of the Gods from the Treatises of M.T. Cicero translated by Charles Duke Yonge (1812–1891), Bohn edition of 1878. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
Marcus Tullius Cicero, De Natura Deorum. O. Plasberg. Leipzig. Teubner. 1917. Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.