Leiagore (mythology)

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In Greek mythology, Leiagore or Leiagora^[1] (Ancient Greek: Ληαγόρη Lêagorê means 'assembler' or addressing the people'^[2]) was the Nereid of assembling (fish or navies). She was one of the 50 marine-nymph daughters of the 'Old Man of the Sea' Nereus and the Oceanid Doris.^[3]

Notes

↑ Kerényi, Carl (1951). The Gods of the Greeks. London: Thames and Hudson. p. 65.
↑ Bane, Theresa (2013). Encyclopedia of Fairies in World Folklore and Mythology. McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers. p. 212. ISBN 9780786471119.
↑ Hesiod, Theogony 257

References

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.
Kerényi, Carl, The Gods of the Greeks, Thames and Hudson, London, 1951.

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