Xanthe (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Xanthe (/ˈzænθiː/; Ancient Greek: Ξανθή or Ξάνθη Xanthê means 'blond-haired'^[1]) or Xantho may refer to the following divinity and women:

• Xanthe, one of the 3,000 Oceanids, water-nymph daughters of the Titans Oceanus and his sister-wife Tethys.^[2]
• Xantho, one of the 50 Nereids, sea-nymph daughters of the 'Old Man of the Sea' Nereus and the Oceanid Doris.^[3][1]
• Xanthe, wife of Asclepius in the Messenian version of the story. Machaon was her son.^[4]
• Xanthe, one of the Amazons.^[5]
• Xantho, one of the maenads named in a vase painting.^[6]

Notes

1. Bane, Theresa (2013). Encyclopedia of Fairies in World Folklore and Mythology. McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers. p. 346. ISBN 9780786471119.
2. Hesiod, Theogony 356; Virgil, Georgics 4.336
3. Hyginus, Fabulae Preface
4. Emma J. Edelstein; Ludwig Edelstein, eds. (1945). Asclepius : a collection and interpretation of the testimonies. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press. p. 21. ISBN 978-0-8018-5769-0. OCLC 14725681.
5. Hyginus, Fabulae 163 "AMAZONS: Ocyale, Dioxippe, Iphinome, Xanthe, Hippothoe, Otrere, Antioche, Laomache, Glauce, Agave, Theseis, Hippolyte, Clymene, Polydora, Penthesilea."
6. Walters, Henry Beauchamp (1905). History of Ancient Pottery: Greek, Etruscan, and Roman: Based on the Work of Samuel Birch. Vol. 2. pp. 65.

References

• Gaius Julius Hyginus, Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
• Hesiod, Theogony from The Homeric Hymns and Homerica with an English Translation by Hugh G. Evelyn-White, Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1914. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
• Publius Vergilius Maro, Bucolics, Aeneid, and Georgics of Vergil. J. B. Greenough. Boston. Ginn & Co. 1900. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.