Plexaure (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Plexaure or Plexaura (Ancient Greek: Πληξαύρη Plêxaurê means 'whipping wind'^[1]) may refer to:

Plexaure, one of the 3,000 Oceanids, water-nymph daughters of the Titans Oceanus and his sister-spouse Tethys.^[2]^[3]
Plexaure, one of the 50 Nereids, marine-nymph daughters of the 'Old Man of the Sea' Nereus and the Oceanid Doris.^[4]

Notes

↑ Kerényi, Carl (1951). The Gods of the Greeks. London: Thames and Hudson. p. 41.
↑ Hesiod, Theogony 353
↑ Bane, Theresa (2013). Encyclopedia of Fairies in World Folklore and Mythology. McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers. p. 278. ISBN 9780786471119.
↑ Apollodorus, 1.2.7

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.
Hesiod, Theogony from The Homeric Hymns and Homerica with an English Translation by Hugh G. Evelyn-White, Cambridge, MA.,Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1914. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
Kerényi, Carl, The Gods of the Greeks, Thames and Hudson, London, 1951.

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