In Greek mythology, Leanira (Ancient Greek: Λεάνειρα, romanized: Leáneira), also known as Laodamia,1 was a Spartan princess who later became an Arcadian queen.
Mythology
Leanira was the daughter King Amyclas2 and possibly Diomede, daughter of Lapithes. Through this parentage, she was considered the sister of Argalus,3 Cynortes,4 Hyacinthus,5 Harpalus,6 Hegesandra,7 Polyboea,8 and in other versions, of Daphne.9
Later on, Leaneira married King Arcas, son of Callisto and Zeus. According to the mythographer Apollodorus, the couple had two children, Elatus and Apheidas.2 A scholion on Euripides' Orestes adds Azan to this list,10 while the geographer Pausanias also mentions Triphylus as their child.11 The former two sons divided Arcadia after the demise of their father.
Notes
Notes
- Pausanias, 10.9.5
- Apollodorus, 3.9.1
- Pausanias, 3.1.3
- Apollodorus, 1.9.5 & 3.10.3; Pausanias, 3.13.1
- Apollodorus, 3.10.3; Pausanias, 3.1.3
- Pausanias, 7.18.5 (Achaica)
- Scholia on Homer, Odyssey 4.10; Pherecydes, fr. 132
- Pausanias, 3.19.4
- Parthenius, Erotica Pathemata 15
- Fowler, p. 107; Scholia on Euripides' Orestes, 1646.
- Pausanias, 10.9.5.
References
References
- Apollodorus, The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. ISBN 0-674-99135-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
- Fowler, R. L. (2013), Early Greek Mythography: Volume 2: Commentary, Oxford University Press, 2013. ISBN 978-0-198-14741-1. Google Books.
- Parthenius, Love Romances translated by Sir Stephen Gaselee (1882-1943), S. Loeb Classical Library Volume 69. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. 1916. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
- Parthenius, Erotici Scriptores Graeci, Vol. 1. Rudolf Hercher. in aedibus B. G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1858. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Pausanias, Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. ISBN 0-674-99328-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library