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In Greek mythology, Praxithea (; Ancient Greek: Πραξιθέα) was a name attributed to five women.

  • Praxithea, a Naiad nymph. She married Erichthonius of Athens and by him had a son named Pandion I. Praxithea’s sister Zeuxippe married her nephew Pandion, and to them were born Erechtheus, Butes, Procne and Philomela.[1] She was also called Pasithea.
  • Praxithea, an Athenian daughter of Phrasimus and Diogeneia, daughter of the river-god Cephissus. She became queen of Athens after marrying King Erechtheus by whom she Cecrops, Pandorus, Metion,[2]Protogeneia, Pandora, Procris, Creusa, Oreithyia and Chthonia.[3] Praxithea’s other possible children were Orneus,[4]Thespius,[5]Eupalamus,[6]Sicyon[7] and Merope.[8]
  • Praxithea, the woman that cried out when she saw Demeter holding Metanira’s son Demophon in the fires, thus preventing him from becoming immortal.[9]
  • Praxithea (or Phrasithea), daughter of Leos.[10] Along with her sisters, Theope and Eubule, she sacrificed herself in order to save Athens. In another version, their father was the one who offered them up to sacrifice. A precinct called the Leocorium was dedicated to the worship of these three maidens at Athens.[11]
  • Praxithea, a Thespian princess as one of the 50 daughters of King Thespius and Megamede[12] or by one of his many wives.[13] When Heracles hunted and ultimately slayed the Cithaeronian lion,[14] Praxithea with her other sisters, except for one,[15] all laid with the hero in a night,[16] a week[17] or for 50 days[18] as what their father strongly desired it to be.[19] Praxithea bore Heracles a son, Nephus.[20]
  1. ^ Apollodorus, 3.14.8
  2. ^ Apollodorus, 3.15.1
  3. ^ Suda s.v. Maidens, Virgins (Παρθένοι)
  4. ^ Pausanias, 2.25.6; Plutarch, Theseus 32.1; Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Orneiai
  5. ^ Diodorus Siculus, 4.29.2
  6. ^ Diodorus Siculus, 4.76.1
  7. ^ Pausanias, 2.6.5, citing Hesiod (Ehoiai fr. 224) for Erechtheus
  8. ^ Plutarch, Theseus 19.5
  9. ^ Apollodorus, 1.5.1
  10. ^ Apollodorus, 3.15.8, f.n. 3 as noted by Heyne; 12.28; Aelian, Varia Historia 12.28
  11. ^ Cicero, De Natura Deorum 3.50; Apollodorus, 3.15.8, f.n. 3 as noted by Heyne; Pausanias, 1.5.2; Aelian, Varia Historia 12.28; Photius’ Lexicon; Suida, Suda Encyclopedia s.v. Leokorion; Etymologicum Magnum 560.34; Scholia on Thucidides, 1.20, on Demosthenes 54.7; Apostolius, Cent. 10.53; Aristides, Orations 13, vol. i, pp. 191 ff., ed. Dindorf
  12. ^ Apollodorus, 2.4.10; Tzetzes, Chiliades 2.222
  13. ^ Diodorus Siculus, 4.29.2
  14. ^ Apollodorus, 2.4.9
  15. ^ Pausanias, 9.27.6; Diodorus Siculus, 4.29.3, f.n. 51
  16. ^ Pausanias, 9.27.6–7; Gregorius Nazianzenus, Orat. IV, Contra Julianum I (Migne S. Gr. 35.661)
  17. ^ Athenaeus, 13.4 with Herodorus as the authority; Diodorus Siculus, 4.29.3, f.n. 51
  18. ^ Apollodorus, 2.4.10; Diodorus Siculus, 4.29.3; Tzetzes, Chiliades 2.224
  19. ^ Apollodorus, 2.4.10; Diodorus Siculus, 4.29.3
  20. ^ Apollodorus, 2.7.8

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