Pompholyge

In Greek mythology, Pompholyge was the mother of Asia and Libye by Oceanus, the Titan god of the sea.[1] These daughters are often counted as Oceanids with their mother being Tethys, the Titaness of the sea, in some accounts.

Note
  1. 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.)

References
  • Robert L. Fowler, Early Greek Mythography. Volume 2: Commentary. Oxford University Press. 2013.


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