Myrto (mythology)

In Greek mythology, the name Myrto (Μυρτώ) may refer to one of the following characters:

Myrto, one of the Maenads.^[1]

Myrto, a possible eponym for the Myrtoan Sea.^[2]

Myrto, an Amazon and one of the possible mothers of Myrtilus by Hermes.^[3]

Myrto, daughter of Menoitios of Opus, sister to Patroclus. She had a daughter Eucleia by Heracles.^[4]

References

↑ Nonnus, Dionysiaca, 29. 270
↑ Pausanias, Description of Greece, 8. 14. 8
↑ Scholia on Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 1. 752
↑ Plutarch, Aristides, 20. 6

Sources

Realencyclopädie der Classischen Altertumswissenschaft, Band XVI, Halbband 31, Molatzes-Myssi (1933), s. 1167 (in German)

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