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EIDOTHEA

Greek Name

Ειδοθεα

Transliteration

Eidothea

Latin Spelling

Idothea

Translation

Shapely-Goddess (eidô, thea)

EIDOTHEA an Oread- or Naiad-nymph of Mount Othrys in Malis (northern Greece) loved by the god Poseidon.

Eidothea was probably the same as Diopatre.

PARENTS

Perhaps a daughter of the river SPERKHEIOS

OFFSPRING

EUSIROS (by Poseidon) (Antoninus Liberalis 22)

CLASSICAL LITERATURE QUOTES

Antoninus Liberalis, Metamorphoses 22 (trans. Celoria) (Greek mythographer C2nd A.D.) :
"Kerambos (Cerambus), son of Eusiros, who was the son of Poseidon and of Eidothea the nymphe of Othreis, lived in the land of the Melians on the spurs of Mount Othrys . . . [Kerambos claimed that] the Nymphai (Nymphs) [of Mount Othrys], were not descended from Zeus, but that Deino had given birth to them, with the River Sperkheios (Spercheus) was the father. He also said that Poseidon, for lust of one of them, Diopatre (Diopatra), had made her sisters put down roots and turned them into poplars until, satiated with his desires, he had returned them to their original shapes."