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Thledikh
Têledikê
Teledice
Far-Reaching Justice
(têle, dikê) |
TELEDIKE (or Teledice) was a Naiad Nymph of Argos (southern Greece). She was the wife of Phoroneus, an early Peloponnesian king who lived in the time before the great Deluge.
Their daughter Niobe was the first mortal woman to be loved by Zeus.
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| Perhaps a daughter of OKEANOS or the River INAKHOS |
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| APIS, NIOBE (by Phoroneus) (Apollodorus 2.1) |
"To Okeanos and Tethys was born a son Inakhos, after whom the Inakhos river in Argos is named. By Melia, daughter of Okeanos, he had sons named Phoroneus and Aegialeus. Although Aegialeus died childless, his whole land was called Aegialeia. Phoroneus ruled the entire region later called the Peloponnesos, and by a Nymphe named Teledike fathered Apis and Niobe." - Apollodorus, The Library 2.1
Sources:
- Apollodorus, The Library - Greek Mythography C2nd BC
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