In Greek mythology, Demonice (/ˌdɛməˈnaɪsiː/; Ancient Greek: Δημονίκη, romanized: Dēmonī́kē) was a Aetolian princess as the daughter of King Agenor of Pleuron and Epicaste and thus sister of Porthaon and in some account, Thestius.[1] She bore Ares four sons: Evenus, Molus, Pylus, and Thestius.[2] Her son's names may be intended to be eponyms, with Evenus corresponding to the river Evinos in Aetolia; Pylus to the Aetolian city of Pylene between the rivers Achelous and Evenos; and Molus to the people named Molossians from Epirus. Demonice was also known as Demodice[3] (Δημοδίκη) or Demodoce.[4]
Mythology
Demonice was recounted by Hesiod in his Catalogue of Women in the following lines:
Demodoce whom very many of men on earth, mighty princes, wooed, promising splendid gifts, because of her exceeding beauty.[5]
Notes
- ↑ Pausanias, 3.13.8.
- ↑ Apollodorus, 1.7.7.
- ↑ Scholia on Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.146
- ↑ Scholia on Homer, Iliad 14.200; on Odyssey 1.98
- ↑ Hesiod. Catalogue of Women, fr. 22; Porphyrius. Quaest. Hom. ad Iliad. pert. p. 189.
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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.
- 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
- Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.