Thebe (mythology)

Thebe (Ancient Greek: Θήβη, romanized: Thēbē; pronounced /ˈθiːbiː/, THEE-beh or THAY-bay) is a feminine 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, eponym of Thebes, Egypt.^[1] She was the daughter of either Nilus, Proteus,^[2] or Libys, son of Epirus.^{[citation needed]} In another account, Thebe was called the daughter of Zeus and Iodame and was given in marriage to Ogygus by her father after Deucalion’s flood.^[3] She was the sister of another Deucalion.^[4] One rare version of the myth makes Thebe a consort of Zeus and mother of Aegyptus^[5] and/or Heracles.^[6]
• Thebe, daughter of Asopus^[2] and Metope,^[7] who was said to have consorted with Zeus.^[8] Amphion and Zethus named Boeotian Thebes after her^{[citation needed]} because of their kinship, the twins being sons of her sister Antiope by Zeus. Egyptian Thebes was also named after her.^[2]
• Thebe, daughter of Zeus and Megacleite and sister of Locrus^[9], the man who assisted Amphion and Zethus in the building of Thebes.^[10] She later on married Zethus and the Boeotian Thebes was named after her.^[11]
• Thebe, daughter of Prometheus, and also a possible eponym of the Boeotian Thebes.^[12]
• Thebe, daughter of Cilix^[13] and thus, sister of Thasus.^[14] By Corybas,^[13] son of Cybele, she was the possible mother of Ida who begat Minos II by King Lycastus of Crete.^[15] This Thebe is possibly the eponym of Cilician Thebe.
• Thebe, daughter of the Pelasgian Adramys, the eponym of Adramyttium^[16] or of the river god Granicus^{[citation needed]}. She married Heracles, who named Hypoplacian Thebes after her.^[16]
• Thebe, an Amazon. ^{[citation needed]}
• Thebe, alternate name for the Titaness Phoebe.^{[citation needed]}