Orphne
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In Greek mythology, Orphne (/ˈɔːrfniː/ ORF-nee; Template:Langx, from Template:Langx) was a nymph that lived in Hades. She was also known as Styx (/stɪks/ STIKS; Template:Langx) or Gorgyra (/ɡɔːrˈdʒaɪrə/ gor-JY-rə; Template:Langx, from Template:Langx).[1] With Acheron, she mothered Ascalaphus.[2]
Orphne also seems to be one translation of the name of the Roman goddess Caligo (Darkness).[3]
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[edit | edit source]- Apollodorus, Apollodorus. The Library, Volume I: Books 1-3.9, translated by James G. Frazer, Loeb Classical Library No. 121, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1921. ISBN 978-0-674-99135-4. Online version at Harvard University Press. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Fontenrose, Joseph Eddy (1959), Python: A Study of Delphic Myth and Its Origins, University of California Press, 1959. ISBN 978-0-520-04091-5. Google Books.
- Ovid, Metamorphoses, edited and translated by Brookes More, Boston, Cornhill Publishing Co., 1922. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Online version at ToposText.