Xenodice (mythology)

For other uses, see Xenodice (disambiguation).

In Greek mythology, Xenodice or Xenodike (Ancient Greek: Ξενοδίκη) may refer to the following characters:

• Xenodice, a Cretan princess as the daughter of King Minos either by Pasiphae or Crete. She was the sister of Acacallis, Ariadne, Androgeus, Deucalion, Phaedra, Glaucus and Catreus.^[1]
• Xenodice, a Trojan captive. (see List of children of Priam)^[2]
• Xenodice, daughter of Syleus, killed by Heracles along with her father.^[3][4][5]

Notes

1. Apollodorus, 3.1.2.
2. Pausanias, 10.26.1
3. Apollodorus, 2.6.3
4. Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca historica 4.73.7
5. Tzetzes, Chiliades 2.432–425

References

• Apollodorus, The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. ISBN 0-674-99135-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
• Pausanias, Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. ISBN 0-674-99328-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
• Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.