Panopea

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In [[Greek mythology]], '''Panopea''' ([[Ancient Greek]]: Πανόπεια ''Panopeia'') or '''Panope''' (Πανόπη) may refer to various characters. The names mean 'panorama' or means 'of the beautiful husband'.<ref name=":022">{{Cite book|last=Bane|first=Theresa|title=Encyclopedia of Fairies in World Folklore and Mythology|publisher=McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers|year=2013|isbn=9780786471119|page=265}}</ref>

* Panope or '''Poenope''',<ref name=":0">[[Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]], ''Fabulae'' Preface (Latin ed. [[Jacob Micyllus|Micyllus]])</ref> the [[Nereids|Nereid]] of the sea panorama.<ref name=":022" /> She was one of the 50 marine-[[nymph]] daughters of the '[[Old Man of the Sea]]' [[Nereus]] and the [[Oceanids|Oceanid]] [[Doris (Oceanid)|Doris]].<ref>[[Homer]], ''[[Iliad]]'' 18.45; [[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], 1.2.7</ref> Panope, together with [[Doto (mythology)|Doto]] and [[Acis and Galatea|Galatea]], escorted her sister [[Thetis]] out of the sea to her wedding with [[Peleus]].<ref>[[Valerius Flaccus (poet)|Valerius Flaccus]], 1.130 ff.</ref> Later on, Panope and her other sisters appeared to Thetis when she cries out in sympathy for the grief of [[Achilles]] for his slain friend [[Patroclus]].<ref name="Hom">Homer, ''Iliad'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0134%3Abook%3D18%3Acard%3D22 18.39-51]</ref>
* Panopea, '''Panopeia<ref>{{Cite book|last=[[Kerényi]]|first=Carl|title=The Gods of the Greeks|publisher=[[Thames and Hudson]]|year=1951|location=London|pages=64}}</ref>''' or '''Panopaea<ref name=":0" />''', another 'virgin' Nereid<ref>[[Hesiod]], ''[[Theogony]]'' 250</ref> who together with her sisters, Thetis, [[Nesaea]], [[Spio]], [[Thalia (Nereid)|Thalia]], [[Cymodoce (mythology)|Cymodoce]] and [[Melite (mythology)|Melite]], helped the hero [[Aeneas]] and his crew during a storm.<ref>[[Virgil]], ''[[Aeneid]]'' 5.825</ref> She may be the same with her above supposed sister who was doubled by [[Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]] in his account.
* Panope, a [[Thespiae|Thespian]] princess as one of the 50 daughters of King [[Thespius]] and [[Megamede]]<ref name=":02">[[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], 2.4.10; [[John Tzetzes|Tzetzes]], ''Chiliades'' 2.222</ref> or by one of his many wives.<ref name=":1">[[Diodorus Siculus]], 4.29.2</ref> When Heracles hunted and ultimately slew the [[Lion of Cithaeron|Cithaeronian lion]],<ref>Apollodorus, 2.4.9</ref> Panope with her other sisters, except for one,<ref>[[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], 9.27.6; Diodorus Siculus, 4.29.3, [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/4B*.html#note51 f.n. 51]</ref> all lay with the hero in a night,<ref>Pausanias, 9.27.6–7; Gregorius Nazianzenus, ''Orat.'' IV, ''Contra Julianum'' I (Migne ''S. Gr.'' 35.661)</ref> a week<ref>[[Athenaeus]], 13.4 with [[Herodorus]] as the authority; Diodorus Siculus, 4.29.3, [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/4B*.html#note51 f.n. 51]</ref> or for 50 days<ref>Apollodorus, 2.4.10; Diodorus Siculus, 4.29.3; Tzetzes, ''Chiliades'' [http://www.theoi.com/Text/TzetzesChiliades2.html 2.224]</ref> as what their father strongly desired it to be.<ref>Apollodorus, 2.4.10; Diodorus Siculus, 4.29.3</ref> Panope bore [[Heracles]] a son, [[Threpsippas]].<ref>Apollodorus, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+2.7.8&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:book=0:chapter=0&highlight=Panope 2.7.8]</ref>

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== References ==

* [[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|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. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0022 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.] [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0021 Greek text available from the same website].
* [[Athenaeus|Athenaeus of Naucratis]], ''The Deipnosophists or Banquet of the Learned.'' London. Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden. 1854. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:2013.01.0003 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library].
*Athenaeus of Naucratis, ''Deipnosophistae''. Kaibel. In Aedibus B.G. Teubneri. Lipsiae. 1887. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:2013.01.0001 Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library].
*[[Diodorus Siculus]], ''The Library of History'' translated by [[Charles Henry Oldfather]]. Twelve volumes. [[Loeb Classical Library]]. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1989. Vol. 3. Books 4.59–8. [http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/home.html Online version at Bill Thayer's Web Site]
*Diodorus Siculus, ''Bibliotheca Historica. Vol 1-2''. Immanel Bekker. Ludwig Dindorf. Friedrich Vogel. in aedibus B. G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1888–1890. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:2008.01.0540 Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library].
*[[Gaius Julius Hyginus]], ''Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus'' translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. [https://topostext.org/work/206 Online version at the Topos Text Project.]
* [[Gaius Valerius Flaccus]], ''Argonautica'' translated by Mozley, J H. Loeb Classical Library Volume 286. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1928. [http://www.theoi.com/Text/ValeriusFlaccus1.html Online version at theio.com.]
*Gaius Valerius Flaccus, ''Argonauticon.'' Otto Kramer. Leipzig. Teubner. 1913. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:2007.01.0058 Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.]
*[[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. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0130%3Acard%3D1 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.] [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0129 Greek text available from the same website].
* [[Homer]], [[Iliad|''The Iliad'']] with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, Ph.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924. {{ISBN|978-0674995796|}}. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0134 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.]
* Homer, ''Homeri Opera'' in five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920. {{ISBN|978-0198145318|}}. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0133 Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library].
*[[Károly Kerényi|Kerényi, Carl]], ''The Gods of the Greeks'', Thames and Hudson, London, 1951.
*[[Pausanias (geographer)|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}}. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0160 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library]
*Pausanias, ''Graeciae Descriptio.'' ''3 vols''. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0159 Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library].
*[[Virgil|Publius Vergilius Maro]], ''Aeneid.'' Theodore C. Williams. trans. Boston. Houghton Mifflin Co. 1910. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0054%3Abook%3D1%3Acard%3D1 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.]
*Publius Vergilius Maro, ''Bucolics, Aeneid, and Georgics''. J. B. Greenough. Boston. Ginn & Co. 1900. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0055 Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library].
*[[John Tzetzes|Tzetzes, John]], ''Book of Histories,'' Book II-IV translated by Gary Berkowitz from the original Greek of T. Kiessling's edition of 1826. [http://www.theoi.com/Text/TzetzesChiliades2.html Online version at theio.com]

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