DIOGENEIA
Greek Name
Διογενεια
Transliteration
Diogeneia
Latin Spelling
Diogenia
Translation
Divine Born (dios, genos)
DIOGENEIA was the Naiad-nymph of a well or fountain of the city of Athens in Attika (southern Greece). She was a daughter of the nearby River Kephisos (Cephisus) and the wife of the Athenian lord Phrasimos.
PARENTS
KEPHISOS (Apollodorus 3.196)
OFFSPRING
PRAXITHEA, ZEUXIPPE (by Phrasimos) (Apollodorus 3.196)
CLASSICAL LITERATURE QUOTES
Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3. 196 (trans. Aldrich) (Greek mythographer C2nd A.D.) :
"Erekhtheus (Erechtheus) [king of Athens] married Praxithea, daughter of Phrasimos (Phrasimus) and Kephisos' (Cephisus') daughter Diogeneia."
Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3. 14. 8 :
"Pandion married Zeuxippe, his mother's [Praxithea's] sister." [N.B. Praxithea and Zeuxippe were daughters of Diogeneia.]
SOURCES
GREEK
- Apollodorus, The Library - Greek Mythography C2nd A.D.
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