thebe

Thebe (Θήβη) is a female name mentioned several times in Greek mythology, in accounts that imply multiple female characters, four of whom are said to have had three cities named Thebes after them:

• Thebe, daughter of Asopus and Metope,^[1][2] who became wife of Zethus, and gave her name to Boeotian Thebes^[3]. She is also said to have consorted with Zeus.^[4]
• Thebe, daughter of Zeus and Iodame, given in marriage to Ogygus^[5].
• Thebe, daughter of Prometheus and also a possible eponym of the Boeotian Thebes^[6].
• Thebe, daughter of Cilix and wife of Corybas (son of Cybele)^[7].
• Thebe, eponym of Thebes, Egypt^[8]. She was the daughter of either Nilus, Epaphus, Proteus, or Libys;^[9] rare versions of the myth make her a consort of Zeus and mother of Aegyptus^[5] or Heracles.^[10]
• Thebe, daughter of the Pelasgian Adramys, the eponym of Adramyttium, or of the river god Granicus. She married Heracles, who named Hypoplacian Thebes after her.^[11]
• Thebe, daughter of Zeus and Megacleite, sister of Locrus^[12].
• Thebe, an Amazon
• Thebe, alternate name for the Titaness Phoebe

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