Editing Electryone

{{Short description|Daughter of Helios}}
{{about|the daughter of Helios|the mother of [[Heracles]]|Alcmene}}
In [[Greek mythology]], '''Electryone''' ([[Ancient Greek]]: Ἠλεκτρυώνην) or '''Alectrona''' ([[Doric Greek|Doric]] form) was a daughter of [[Helios]] and [[Rhodos]], and sister to the [[Heliadae]].<ref>[[Scholia]] on [[Pindar]], ''Olympian Odes'' 7.24</ref> She died a virgin and was worshipped as a [[hero]]ine on the island of [[Rhodes]].<ref>[[Diodorus Siculus]], [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/5D*.html#56.5 5.56.5]</ref>

She was possibly a [[goddess]] of the sunrise, or of man's waking sense.{{cn|date=February 2025}} The Doric form of her name is akin to the Greek word for "rooster" (Alectrona, the feminine genitive of Αλεκτορ, '''Alektor''', the [[ancient Greek]] word for "[[rooster]]"), while the Attic form Electryone is akin to the word for "amber" (Ἠλέκτρα, '''Elektra'''), as in the [[amber]] [[color]] of [[sunrise]].

A marble tablet from the 3rd century BC found in [[Ialysos|Ialyssus]] contains an inscription about the regulations for visitors to the temple of Alectrona.<ref>[http://clas-pages.uncc.edu/james-tabor/hellenistic-roman-religion-philosophy/temples-holy-places/ "Regulations for Visitors to the Temple of Alectrona at Ialysus"]</ref>

==Genealogy==

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==Notes==
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==References==
* [[Diodorus Siculus]], ''[[Bibliotheca historica|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].
* [[Robert Graves|Graves, Robert]]; ''[[The Greek Myths]]'', Penguin Books Ltd. (1960 edition). 42. c, 4.
* [https://books.google.com/books?id=-tcEAAAAYAAJ&q=Alectrona+goddess-The&pg=PA272 Numismatic Chronicle, Volume 18]
* [[William Smith (lexicographer)|Smith, William]]; ''[[Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology]]'', London (1873). [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0104%3Aalphabetic+letter%3DE%3Aentry+group%3D2%3Aentry%3Delectryone-bio-1 "Electryo'ne" ]

[[Category:Greek virgin goddesses]]
[[Category:Greek mythological heroes]]
[[Category:Children of Helios]]
[[Category:Mythological Rhodians]]


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