In Greek mythology, Libya, Libye, Lybie or Lybee ( or , ) was a name shared by two individuals:
Libya, daughter of the Titan Oceanus and Pompholyge, and the sister of Asia.Tzetzes ad Lycophron, 894; Andron of Halicarnassus fr. 7 Fowler = FGrHist 10 F 7 (Fowler 2000, p. 42; Fowler 2013, p. 13; Bouzek and Graninger, p. 12. Fowler 2013, p. 15, calls Pompholyge, a name found nowhere else, an ad hoc invention.) In one account, Libya was the consort of the sea god TritonApollonius of Rhodes, 4.1323, 1358 & 1742 and by him the mother of various nymphs, probably including the Tritonian nymph who bore Nasamon and Caphaurus to Amphitemis.Apollonius of Rhodes, 4.1495–1450 Libya, a princess of Egypt as the daughter of King Epaphus. She became the mother of Belus and Agenor by Poseidon, the god of the sea.Hyginus, Fabulae 160 Some sources describe her as the mother of Lamia.Scholium from the Byzantine-Hellenistic period to Aristophanes, Peace 758, quoted by Ogden (2013b), p. 98Diodorus Siculus, 20.41.3-6; Scholia to Aristophanes, The Wasps 1035; Commentary 37 to Heraclitus the Allegorist. The ancient Greeks considered her the origin of the name of the place Libya.
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