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Lysianassa (/ˌlɪʒiəˈnæsə/; Ancient Greek: Λυσιάνασσα means 'the redeeming mistress'[1] or 'lady deliverance'[2]) is the name of four characters in Greek mythology:
- Lysianassa, the Nereid of royal delivery[2] and one of the 50 marine-nymph daughters of the 'Old Man of the Sea' Nereus and the Oceanid Doris.[3]
- Lysianassa, an Egyptian princess as the daughter of King Epaphus[4] probably either by Memphis[5] or Cassiopeia.[6] She bore Poseidon a son, Busiris, King of Egypt who was killed by Heracles.[7] Lysianassa's possible sister, Libya also bore to Poseidon twin sons, Agenor and Belus.[8]
- Lysianassa, a Sicyonian princess as the daughter of King Polybus. She married King Talaus of Argos and bore him Adrastus and Mecisteus.[9]
- Lysianassa, a Trojan princess as the daughter of King Priam of Troy.[10]
- ^ Kerényi, Carl (1951). The Gods of the Greeks. London: Thames and Hudson. p. 65.
- ^ a b Bane, Theresa (2013). Encyclopedia of Fairies in World Folklore and Mythology. McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers. p. 222. ISBN 9780786471119.
- ^ Hesiod, Theogony 258; Apollodorus, 1.2.7
- ^ Apollodorus, 2.5.11 (Gantz, p. 418)
- ^ Apollodorus, 2.1.4; Tzetzes ad Lycophron, 894
- ^ Hyginus, Fabulae 149
- ^ Apollodorus, 2.5.11; compare with Plutarch, Parallela minora 38 with Agatho the Samian as the authority claiming: "Busiris's mother was Anippe, daughter of the river-god Nilus"
- ^ Hyginus, Fabulae 160
- ^ Herodotus, 5.67 (MIT - Classics); Pausanias, 2.6.6
- ^ Hyginus, Fabulae 90