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Dia (Ancient Greek: Δία or Δῖα, "heavenly", "divine" or "she who belongs to Zeus"), in ancient Greek religion and folklore, may refer to:
- Dia, a goddess venerated at Phlius and Sicyon. She was seen by the locals as identical to Hebe and/or Ganymeda.[1][2]
- Dia, daughter of Aeolus, keeper of the winds and Telepora or Telepatra, daughter of Laestrygon. She was the sister of Androcles, Chrysippus, Iocastus, Phalacrus, Pheraemon, Xuthus, and the daughters' as Aeole, Astycrateia, Hephaestia, Iphthe and Periboea.[3]
- Dia, daughter of King Porthaon of Calydon[4] and mother of Thersites and possibly the remaining five sons by Agrius.[5]
- Dia, daughter of the king Lycaon (thus sister of Callisto), mother of Dryops by Apollo.[6][AI-generated source?] She concealed her new-born infant in a hollow oak tree.[7]
- Dia, second wife of the Thracian king Phineus and by him, mother of Mariandynus and Thynus. She falsely accused of rape her step sons, Parthenius and Crambis, leading to their blindness and eventual imprisonment by Phineus.[8]
- Dia, the Perrhaebian daughter of Deioneus[9] or Eioneus,[10] wife of Ixion[11] (who killed her father so as to not pay the bride price) and with her husband, she became mother of the Lapith Pirithous, whose marriage to Hippodameia was the occasion of the Lapiths' battle with the Centaurs. According to Homer, after having sex with Zeus, who was disguised as a stallion, she gave birth to Pirithous; a folk etymology derived Pirithous' name from peritheein (περιθεῖν "to run around"), because that was what Zeus did to seduce Dia.[12][13] The Jovian moon Dia is named after this Dia.[14]
- Dia, alternate name for Hippodamia, the wife of Pirithous (thus daughter-in-law of another Dia).[15]
- Dia, mother of Pittheus by Pelops.[16] She may have been identical with another Hippodamia, daughter of Oenomaus.
In ancient Roman religion, Dia may refer to Dea Dia.
- ^ Strabo, 8.6.24, cf. Pausanias, 2.13.3 for Ganymeda
- ^ "Only another name for Hebe, the daughter of Hera", according to Karl Kerenyi (The Gods of the Greeks, 1951, p.159), who adds "and indeed was probably the name for Hera herself, as 'she who belongs to Zeus' or 'the heavenly one'—for this is the meaning of the word."
- ^ Scholia ad Homer, Odyssey 10.6
- ^ Scholia ad Homer, Iliad 2.212
- ^ Tzetzes, Chiliades 7.888
- ^ Scholia ad Apollonius Rhodius, 1.1213; Tzetzes ad Lycophron, 480;
- ^ Etymologicum Magnum 288.33 (under Dryops)
- ^ Scholia ad Apollonius Rhodius, 2.140
- ^ Hyginus, Fabulae 155
- ^ Scholia ad Apollonius of Rhodes, 3.62; Diodorus Siculus, 4.69
- ^ Scholia ad Pindar, Pythian Ode 2.39
- ^ Homer, Iliad 14.317; Scholia ad Iliad 1.268 & ad Odyssey 11.631; Eustathius ad Homer, 101.3; Nonnus, 7.125
- ^ Robert Graves, The Greek Myths 1960 §63a
- ^ "Planetary Names". planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov. Retrieved 6 January 2023.
- ^ Scholia ad Hesiod, Shield of Heracles 178
- ^ Scholia ad Pindar, Olympian Ode 1.144