TITHOREA
Greek Name
Τιθορεα
Transliteration
Tithorea
Latin Spelling
Tithorea
Translation
Of Tithorea (town)
TITHOREA was the Dryad-nymph eponym of the village of Tithorea on Mount Parnassos in Phokis (central Greece).
PARENTS
Nowhere stated
ENCYCLOPEDIA
TITHO′REA (Tithorea), a nymph of Mount Parnassus, from whom the town of Tithorea, previously called Neon, was believed to have derived its name. (Paus. x. 32. § 6.)
Source: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.
CLASSICAL LITERATURE QUOTES
Pausanias, Description of Greece 10. 32. 9 (trans. Jones) (Greek travelogue C2nd A.D.) :
"The natives say that Tithorea [a village on Mount Parnassos in Phokis] was so called after a Nymphe of the same name, one of those who in days of old, according to the story of the poets, grew out of trees and especially out of oaks."
SOURCES
GREEK
- Pausanias, Description of Greece - Greek Travelogue C2nd A.D.
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