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== References ==

== References ==

* [[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].

* [[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].

* [[Károly Kerényi|Kerényi, Carl]], ”The Gods of the Greeks”, Thames and Hudson, London, 1951.

* [[Károly Kerényi|Kerényi, Carl]], ”The Gods of the Greeks”, Thames and Hudson, London, 1951.

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In Greek mythology, Laomedeia or Laomedea (Ancient Greek: Λαομέδεια means ‘ruleress of the people’[1] or ‘counsel the people, mid-day, noon’[2]) was one of the 50 Nereids, marine-nymph daughters of the ‘Old Man of the SeaNereus and the Oceanid Doris.[3]

  1. ^ Kerényi, Carl (1951). The Gods of the Greeks. London: Thames and Hudson. p. 65.
  2. ^ Bane, Theresa (2013). Encyclopedia of Fairies in World Folklore and Mythology. McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers. p. 211. ISBN 9780786471119.
  3. ^ Hesiod, Theogony 257,”And of Nereus and rich-haired Doris, daughter of Ocean the perfect river, were born children,[11] passing lovely amongst goddesses, Ploto, Eucrante, Sao, and Amphitrite, and Eudora, and Thetis, Galene and Glauce, Cymothoë, Speo, Thoë and lovely Halie, and Pasithea, and Erato, and rosy-armed Eunice, and gracious Melite, and Eulimene, and Agaue, Doto, Proto, Pherusa, and Dynamene, and Nisaea, and Actaea, and Protomedea, Doris, Panopea, and comely Galatea, and lovely Hippothoë, and rosy-armed Hipponoë, and Cymodoce who with Cymatolege[12] and Amphitrite easily calms the waves upon the misty sea and the blasts of raging winds, and Cymo, and Eïone, and rich-crowned Alimede, and Glauconome, fond of laughter, and Pontoporea, Leagore, Euagore, and Laomedea, and Polynoë, and Autonoë, and Lysianassa, and Euarne, lovely of shape and without blemish of form, and Psamathe of charming figure and divine Menippe, Neso, Eupompe, Themisto, Pronoë, and Nemertes[13] who has the nature of her deathless father. “

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