PHYLONOE
Greek Name
Φυλονοη
Transliteration
Phylonoê
Latin Spelling
Phylonoe
Translation
Mind of the People
PHYLONOE was a Spartan maiden who was granted immortality as a demigoddess in the train of Artemis. According to Athenagoras Phylonoe was worshipped in Sparta. Her name means "mind of the people" from the Greek words phylê and noos. She was perhaps identified with Polyboia.
PARENTS
TYNDAREOS & LEDA (Apollodorus 3.126)
CLASSICAL LITERATURE QUOTES
Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3. 126 (trans. Aldrich) (Greek mythographer C2nd A.D.) :
"The daughters of Tyndareos (Tyndareus) and Leda were Timandra, whom Ekhemos (Echemus) married; Klytaimnestra (Clytemnestra), whom Agamemnon married; and Phylonoe, whom Artemis made immortal."
SOURCES
GREEK
- Apollodorus, The Library - Greek Mythography C2nd A.D.
OTHER SOURCES
Other references not currently quoted here: Hesiod Frag 23a, Athenagoras Leg. Pro Christ. 1.
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