Thoosa

This article is about the nymph. For the sponge genus, see Thoosa (sponge).
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In Greek mythology, Thoosa (/θoʊˈoʊsə/, Ancient Greek: Θόωσα, romanized: Thóōsa), also spelled Thoösa, was, according to Homer, the sea nymph daughter of the primordial sea god Phorcys, and the mother, by Poseidon, of the Cyclops Polyphemus.[1]

Notes

  1. ^ Homer, Odyssey 1.70–73. Heubeck, Hainsworth and West, p. 69 on line 71-3, notes that "Thoosa seems to be an ad hoc invention, her name recalling the swift movement of the waves".; compare with Apollodorus, E.7.4; Nonnus, 39.293-294; Servius' Commentary on Virgil, Aeneid 5.824; Theocritus, Idylls 11.25 ff. & 62ff.

References

  • Heubeck, Alfred, J. B. Hainsworth, Stephanie West, A Commentary on Homer's Odyssey: Volume I: Introduction and Books I–VIII, Oxford University Press, 1990. ISBN 0-19-814747-3.
  • Homer, The Odyssey with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, PH.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, Massachusetts., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1919. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
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