Rhodope (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Rhodope (Ancient Greek: ) may refer to several different characters:

Rhodope, one of the 3,000 Oceanids, water-nymph daughters of the Titans Oceanus and his sister-wife Tethys.Hyginus, Fabulae Preface She was one of the playmates of Persephone in the meadows of Sicily when the latter was abducted by her uncle Hades to be his queen in the underworld.Homeric Hymn to Demeter 422 Rhodope, a queen of Thrace and the wife of King Haemus. She and her husband were vain and haughty and compared themselves to Zeus and Hera, who were offended and changed the couple into mountains—the Haemus Mons and the Rhodopes respectively.Ovid, Metamorphoses 6.87-89 Rhodope, a Naiad daughter of Strymon who consorted with Poseidon and became the mother of Athos.Scholia ad Theocritus, Idyll 7.76 Rhodope, who was said to have coupled with Apollo and bore to him Cicon, eponym of the Cicones.Etymologicum Magnum 513.37 under Kikones

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References Hyginus, Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. Online version at the Topos Text Project. The Homeric Hymns and Homerica with an English Translation by Hugh G. Evelyn-White. Homeric Hymns. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1914. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website. Publius Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses translated by Brookes More (1859–1942). Boston, Cornhill Publishing Co. 1922. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Publius Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses. Hugo Magnus. Gotha (Germany). Friedr. Andr. Perthes. 1892. Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.