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In Greek mythology, Actaeä or Aktaia (/ækˈtiːə/; Ancient Greek: Ἀκταία, romanized: Aktaía, "the dweller on coasts,"[1] from ἀκτή, "seashore") may refer to the following figures:[2]
- Actaea or Actea,[3] the Nereid of rocky shore. These 50 sea-nymphs are daughters of the "Old Man of the Sea" Nereus and the Oceanid Doris.[4][5] Actaea and her other sisters appeared to Thetis when she cried out in sympathy for the grief of Achilles for his slain friend Patroclus.[6]
- Actaea, a Libyan princess was one of the Danaïdes, daughters of King Danaus and Pieria. She married and murdered her cousin Periphas, son of Aegyptus on their wedding night at the command of her father.[7]
- ^ Kerényi, Carl (1951). The Gods of the Greeks. London: Thames and Hudson. p. 64.
- ^ Bell, Robert E. (1991). Women of Classical Mythology: A Biographical Dictionary. ABC-CLIO. p. 4. ISBN 9780874365818.
- ^ Hyginus, Fabulae Preface (Latin ed. Micyllus; Scheffero; Staveren; Bunte)
- ^ Homer, Iliad 18.41; Apollodorus, 1.2.7; Hesiod, Theogony 240
- ^ Bane, Theresa (2013). Encyclopedia of Fairies in World Folklore and Mythology. McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers. p. 11, 12. ISBN 9780786471119.
- ^ Homer, Iliad 18.39-51
- ^ Apollodorus, 2.1.5