Editing Lybie

{{Short description|Queen of Libya in Greek mythology}}
{{Other uses|Libya of Egypt}}
In [[Greek mythology]], '''Lybie''' or '''Libye''' ([[Ancient Greek]]: Λυβίη, ''Lubiē''; often written '''Lybië''') was the mother of [[Belus (Egyptian)|Belus]] by [[Poseidon]] and a personification and queen of the country of [[Libya (mythology)|Libya]].<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Mitchell|first=Lynette G.|date=2001|title=Euboean Io|journal=The Classical Quarterly|volume=51|issue=2|pages=339–352|doi=10.1093/cq/51.2.339|issn=1471-6844|url=https://ore.exeter.ac.uk/repository/handle/10036/49253|hdl=10036/49253|hdl-access=free}}</ref>  Some sources describe her as the mother of [[Lamia (mythology)|Lamia]].<ref name="scholium">[[Scholium]] from the Byzantine-Hellenistic period to [[Aristophanes]], ''Peace'' 758, quoted by Ogden (2013b), [https://books.google.com/books?id=bFwWDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA99 p. 98]</ref><ref>[[Diodorus Siculus]], 20.41.3-6; Scholia to [[Aristophanes]], ''[[The Wasps]]'' 1035; Commentary 37 to [[Heraclitus (commentator)|Heraclitus the Allegorist]].</ref>

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== References ==
* [[Aristophanes]], ''Peace'' from ''The Complete Greek Drama, vol. 2.'' Eugene O'Neill, Jr. New York. Random House. 1938. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0038 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.]
* [[Aristophanes]], ''Aristophanes Comoediae'' edited by F.W. Hall and W.M. Geldart, vol. 1. F.W. Hall and W.M. Geldart. Oxford. Clarendon Press, Oxford. 1907.  [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0037 Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library].

[[Category:Queens in Greek mythology]]
[[Category:Princesses in Greek mythology]]
[[Category:Libyan characters in Greek mythology]]
[[Category:Lamia]]
[[Category:Personifications in Greek mythology]]

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