In Greek mythology, CleopatraThe name Cleopatra is pronounced , or sometimes in both British and American English, see and respectively. Her name was pronounced in the Greek dialect of Egypt (see Koine Greek phonology). () was the name of the following women:
Cleopatra, one of the fifty Danaids, the daughters of Danaus.Apollodorus, 2.1.5.4 Cleopatra, daughter of King Tros of Troy and Callirhoe, daughter of the river-god Scamander.Scholiast on Homer's Iliad 20.231 who refers to Hellanicus as his authority; Tzetzes on Lycophron, 29 She was the sister of Ilus, Assaracus, Ganymede and possibly, Cleomestra.Dictys Cretensis, 4.22 Cleopatra and Cleomestra probably refer to the same individual. Cleopatra, daughter of Boreas (the North wind) and the Athenian princess Orithyia, sister to the Boreads and Chione. She was the first wife of Phineus by whom he had a pair of sons, named either Plexippus and Pandion, or Gerymbas and Aspondus,Scholia ad Sophocles, Antigone 977 ed. Brunck or Polydector (Polydectus) and Polydorus, or Parthenius and Crambis.Scholia ad Apollonius Rhodius, 2.140 Cleopatra, also called Alcyone, the wife of Meleager.Homer, Iliad 9.562 Cleopatra, wife of King Deucalion of Crete and mother of Idomeneus.Tzetzes, Homeric Allegories Prologue 587; ad Lycophron, 431 Cleopatra and Periboea of Locris, two maidens sent to the Trojan temple of Athena in retribution for Ajax the Lesser's sacrilege. This was done because three years after the Locrians had regained their country, they suffered a plague. Then an oracle bade them to propitiate Athena at Troy, sending two maidens as suppliants for a thousand years. The first lot fell on Periboea and Cleopatra, and after their deaths others were sent.Apollodorus, Epitome 6.20–21
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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.
Dictys Cretensis, from The Trojan War. The Chronicles of Dictys of Crete and Dares the Phrygian translated by Richard McIlwaine Frazer, Jr. (1931-). Indiana University Press. 1966. Online version at the Topos Text Project. . Homer, The Iliad with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, Ph.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924. . Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Homer, Homeri Opera in five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920. . Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.