PHYLONOE - Greek Demi-Goddess of Sparta (original) (raw)

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Translation

Mind of the People

PHYLONOE was a Spartan maiden who was granted immortality as a demigoddess in the train of Artemis. According to Athenagoras Phylonoe was worshipped in Sparta. Her name means "mind of the people" from the Greek words phylê and noos. She was perhaps identified with Polyboia.

PARENTS

TYNDAREOS & LEDA (Apollodorus 3.126)

CLASSICAL LITERATURE QUOTES

Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3. 126 (trans. Aldrich) (Greek mythographer C2nd A.D.) :
"The daughters of Tyndareos (Tyndareus) and Leda were Timandra, whom Ekhemos (Echemus) married; Klytaimnestra (Clytemnestra), whom Agamemnon married; and Phylonoe, whom Artemis made immortal."

SOURCES

GREEK

• Apollodorus, The Library - Greek Mythography C2nd A.D.

OTHER SOURCES

Other references not currently quoted here: Hesiod Frag 23a, Athenagoras Leg. Pro Christ. 1.

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