Editing Evadne

{{Short description|Any of several women in Greek mythology}}
{{other uses}}{{Greek myth (nymph)}}In [[Greek mythology]], '''Evadne''' ({{IPAc-en|iː|ˈ|v|æ|d|n|iː}}; [[Ancient Greek]]: Εὐάδνη) was a name attributed to the following individuals:

*Evadne, a daughter of [[Strymon (mythology)|Strymon]] and [[Neaera (Greek mythology)|Neaera]], wife of [[Argus (king of Argos)|Argus]] (king of [[Argos, Peloponnese|Argos]]), mother of [[Ecbasus]], [[Piras (mythology)|Peiras]], [[Epidaurus (mythology)|Epidaurus]] and [[Criasus]].<ref>[[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], 2.1.2</ref>
*Evadne, a daughter of [[Poseidon]] and [[Pitane (nymph)|Pitane]]<ref>[[Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]], ''Fabulae'' 175</ref> who was raised by [[Aepytus]] of [[Arcadia (region)|Arcadia]]. She experienced the joys of her first love with [[Apollo]]. However, when her consequent pregnancy was discovered by Aepytus, he was furious and left to consult the Oracle of Apollo. During the childbirth, Apollo sent [[Eileithyia]] and the [[Moirae]] to assist his lover and ease her pain. Evadne gave birth in the wilderness and left the child, [[Iamus]], exposed to the elements. Five days later, Aepytus returned from the [[Delphi]], where he had been told by Apollo's Oracle that Evadne's child was indeed the son of Apollo and destined to be a gifted prophet. He demanded that the child be brought to him, and so Evadne retrieved Iamus from the patch of violets where she had left him. Iamus had been nurtured for those five days by the honeybees that were sent by Apollo, or by the Fates. Evadne named the child Iamus (“Boy of the Violets”).<ref>[[Pindar]], ''Olympian Ode'' 6</ref> He went on to found the [[Iamidae]], a family of [[priest]]s from [[Olympia, Greece|Olympia]].<ref>[[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], 4.2.3</ref><ref>Pindar, ''Olympian Ode'' 4</ref>
*Evadne, a daughter of [[Pelias]], King of [[Iolcus]]. She was given by [[Jason]] in marriage to [[Canes (mythology)|Canes]], son of [[Cephalus of Phocis|Cephalus]] and a king of [[Phocis]].<ref>[[Diodorus Siculus]], 4.53.2</ref>
*Evadne, daughter of [[Iphis (mythology)|Iphis of Argos]] or [[Phylax (mythology)|Phylax]] (or [[Phylacus]]<ref>Hyginus, ''Fabulae'' 243</ref>) and wife of [[Capaneus]], with whom she gave birth to [[Sthenelus]]. Her husband was killed by a [[lightning]] bolt in the war of the [[Seven against Thebes]], and she threw herself on his funeral pyre and died.<ref>Apollodorus, 3.7.1; Hyginus, ''Fabulae'' 256; [[Euripides]], ''The Suppliants'' 985; [[Virgil]], ''[[Aeneid]]'' 6.447</ref> In some accounts, she was called the daughter of [[Ares]].<ref>{{Cite book|title=A Classical Manual, being a Mythological, Historical and Geographical Commentary on Pope's Homer, and Dryden's Aeneid of Virgil with a Copious Index|last=Murray|first=John|year=1833|location=Albemarle Street, London|pages=5–6}}</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].
*[[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&ndash;8. [https://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. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:2008.01.0540 Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library].
* [[Euripides]], ''The Complete Greek Drama'' edited by Whitney J. Oates and Eugene O'Neill Jr. in two volumes. 1. The Suppliants, translated by E. P. Coleridge. New York. Random House. 1938. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0122 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.]
* Euripides, ''Euripidis Fabulae.'' ''vol. 2''. Gilbert Murray. Oxford. Clarendon Press, Oxford. 1913. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0121 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.]
* [[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. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Paus.+1.1.1 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library]
* Pausanias, ''Graeciae Descriptio.'' ''3 vols''. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903.  [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0159 Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library].
* [[Pindar]], ''Odes'' translated by Diane Arnson Svarlien. 1990. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0162 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.]
* Pindar, ''The Odes of Pindar'' including the Principal Fragments with an Introduction and an English Translation by Sir John Sandys, Litt.D., FBA. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1937. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0161 Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library].
* [[Virgil|Publius Vergilius Maro]], ''Aeneid.'' Theodore C. Williams. trans. Boston. Houghton Mifflin Co. 1910. [https://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. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0055 Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library].


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