TELEDIKE
Greek Name
Τηλεδικη
Transliteration
Têledikê
Latin Spelling
Teledice
Translation
Far-Reaching Justice (têle, dikê)
TELEDIKE (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 loved by the god Zeus.
PARENTS
Perhaps a daughter of OKEANOS or the River INAKHOS
OFFSPRING
APIS, NIOBE (by Phoroneus) (Apollodorus 2.1)
CLASSICAL LITERATURE QUOTES
Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 2. 1 (trans. Aldrich) (Greek mythographer C2nd A.D.) :
"To Okeanos (Oceanus) and Tethys was born a son Inakhos (Inachus), after whom the Inakhos river in Argos is named. By Melia, daughter of Okeanos, he had sons named Phoroneus and Aigialeus (Aegialeus). Although Aigialeus died childless, his whole land was called Aigialeia. Phoroneus ruled the entire region later called the Peloponnesos, and by a Nymphe named Teledike (Teledice) fathered Apis and Niobe."
SOURCES
GREEK
- Apollodorus, The Library - Greek Mythography C2nd A.D.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
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