Xanthe (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Xanthe (; Ancient Greek: Ξανθή or Ξάνθη Xanthê means 'blond-haired') or Xantho may refer to the following divinity and women:

• Xanthe, one of the 3,000 Oceanids, water-nymph daughters of the Titans Oceanus and his sister-wife Tethys.
• Xantho, one of the 50 Nereids, sea-nymph daughters of the 'Old Man of the Sea' Nereus and the Oceanid Doris.
• Xanthe, wife of Asclepius in the Messenian version of the story. Machaon was her son.
• Xanthe, one of the Amazons.
• Xantho, one of the maenads named in a vase painting.

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References

• Gaius Julius Hyginus, Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
• Hesiod, Theogony from The Homeric Hymns and Homerica with an English Translation by Hugh G. Evelyn-White, Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1914. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
• Publius Vergilius Maro, Bucolics, Aeneid, and Georgics of Vergil. J. B. Greenough. Boston. Ginn & Co. 1900. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.