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In Greek mythology, Teledice (Ancient Greek: Τηλεδικη Têledikê means "far-reaching"), the nymph wife of the first mortal king Phoroneus of Peloponesse, thus mother of Apis and Niobe.[1] Other sources called the consort(s) of Phoroneus as either Cerdo,[2] Cinna,[3] or Laodice also a nymph[4] or Perimede,[5] or Peitho and Europe.[6]

Notes

  1. ^ Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 2.1.1
  2. ^ Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 2.21.1. Having descended thence, and having turned again to the market-place, we come to the tomb of Cerdo, the wife of Phoroneus, and to a temple of Asclepius.
  3. ^ Hyginus, Fabulae 145
  4. ^ Tzetzes on Lycophron 177
  5. ^ Scholia on Pindar, Olympian Ode 3.28
  6. ^ Scholia on Euripides, Orestes 932

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