Phoenice (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Phoenice (Ancient Greek: Φοινίκη) was a Phoenician princess as the daughter of King Phoenix and Telephe. She was sister to Europa, Astypalea and Peirus.[1] Phoenice was said to be the mother of the couple Proteus and Torone by the god of the sea, Poseidon.[2]

Notes

Scholia on Euripides, Phoenissae 5
Stephanus of Byzantium, Ethnica s.v. Torōnē

References

Stephanus of Byzantium, Stephani Byzantii Ethnicorum quae supersunt, edited by August Meineike (1790–1870), published 1849. A few entries from this important ancient handbook of place names have been translated by Brady Kiesling. Online version at the Topos Text Project.

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