Euboea (mythology)

Euboea is the name of several women in Greek mythology.

1. Euboea, a Naiad, daughter of the Boeotian river-god Asopus and of Metope.^[1] Poseidon abducted her.^[2] The island of Euboea was given her name.^[3][4][5][6]
2. Euboea, one of the daughters of the river-god Asterion. She and her sisters, Acraea and Prosymna, were the nurses of Hera.^[7][8]
3. Euboea, one of the fifty daughters of Thespius and Megamede. She bore Heracles a son Olympus.^[9]
4. Euboea, daughter of Macareus, king of Locris. She bore Apollo a son, Agreus.^[10][11]
5. Euboea, daughter of Larymnus. She and Polybus of Sicyon were possible parents of Glaucus.^[12]
6. Euboea, a heroine and eponym of the island of Euboea.^[13][14] May be identical with one of the above.

References

1. Diodorus Siculus, Library of History, 4. 72. 1
2. Corinna, Fragment 654 (trans. Campbell)
3. Eustathius on Homer, p. 278
4. Nonnus, Dionysiaca 42. 411
5. William Smith, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, v. 2, page 60
6. Theoi Project - Nymphe Euboia
7. Pausanias, Description of Greece, 2. 17. 1
8. Theoi Project - Nymphai Asterionides
9. Apollodorus. The Library, 2.7.8..
10. Hyginus, Fabulae, 161
11. Theoi Project - Apollon Family
12. Athenaeus, Banquet of the Learned, 7. 296b (p. 329)
13. Strabo, Geography 10. 1. 3
14. Stephanus of Byzantium s. v. Euboia