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Euboea (/juːˈbiːə/; Ancient Greek: Εὔβοια means 'well-cattle') was the name of several women in Greek mythology.

• Euboea, one of the Argive naiad daughters of the river-god Asterion. She and her sisters, Acraea and Prosymna, were the nurses of Hera.
• Euboea, mother of Triopas and possibly Arestor by Phorbas.
• Euboea, one of the naiad daughters of the river-god Asopus and possibly Metope, the river-nymph daughter of the river Ladon. She was the sister of Aegina, Thebe, Plataea, Sinope, Thespia, Tanagra, Corcyra and Salamis. The last two and 'lovely' Euboea were all abducted by Poseidon from their father. The god brought her to Euboea where she became the eponymous heroine of the island. She may identical with Chalcis or Combe, daughters of Asopus in some myths.
• Euboea, daughter of Larymnus. She and Polybus of Sicyon were possible parents of Glaucus.
• Euboea, daughter of Macareus, king of Locris. She bore Apollo a son, Agreus. Euboea's possible sister was Megaclite, consort of Zeus.
• Euboea, a Thespian princess as one of the 50 daughters of King Thespius and Megamede or by one of his many wives. When Heracles hunted and ultimately slayed the Cithaeronian lion, Euboea with her other sisters, except for one, all laid with the hero in a night, a week or for 50 days as what their father strongly desired it to be. Euboea bore Heracles a son, Olympus.

Notes

1. Pausanias, 2.17.1.
2. Scholia on Euripides, Orestes 920.
3. Scholia on Euripides, Phoenician Women 1116
4. Corinna, fr. 654 Campbell, pp. 26–35.
5. ^ Diodorus Siculus, 4.72.1.
6. Corinna, fr. 654 Campbell, pp. 26–35.
7. Nonnus, 42.411
8. Eustathius on Homer, p. 278; Strabo, 10.1.3; Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Euboia
9. "William Smith, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, v. 2, page 60". Archived from the original on 2011-08-07. Retrieved 2011-09-02.
10. Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Khalkis.
11. Athenaeus, 7.296b (p. 329).
12. Hyginus, Fabulae 161.
13. Pseudo-Clement, Recognitions 10.21
14. Apollodorus, 2.4.10; Tzetzes, Chiliades 2.222
15. Diodorus Siculus, 4.29.2.
16. Apollodorus, 2.4.9.
17. Pausanias, 9.27.6; Diodorus Siculus, 4.29.3, f.n. 51.
18. Pausanias, 9.27.6–7; Gregorius Nazianzenus, Orat. IV, Contra Julianum I (Migne S. Gr. 35.661).
19. Athenaeus, 13.4 with Herodorus as the authority; Diodorus Siculus, 4.29.3, f.n. 51.
20. Apollodorus, 2.4.10; Diodorus Siculus, 4.29.3; Tzetzes, Chiliades 2.224.
21. Apollodorus, 2.4.10; Diodorus Siculus, 4.29.3
22. Apollodorus, 2.7.8.

References

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• Tzetzes, John, Book of Histories, Book II-IV translated by Gary Berkowitz from the original Greek of T. Kiessling's edition of 1826. Online version at theio.com

• Set index articles on Greek mythology
• Ancient Euboea
• Mythological Argives
• Children of Asopus
• Children of Potamoi
• Female lovers of Apollo
• Mythology of Argolis
• Naiads
• Princesses in Greek mythology
• Women in Greek mythology
• Women of Heracles
• Women of Poseidon