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Short description: Figures in Greek mythology with the name Deino


In Greek mythology, Dino or Deino (Ancient Greek: Δεινώ means "dread" or "eddy, whirlpool") may refer to the following divinities:

  • Deino, also called Persis,[1] one of the Graea who were daughters of the sea-deities Phorcys and Ceto.[2] Her sisters were called Enyo and Pemphredo.[3] They were old women from birth and had one eye and one tooth, and these they passed to each other in turn.
  • Deino, a Malian naiad nymph who consorted with the Potamoi Sperchius and gave birth to the Spercheides including Diopatra who was loved by Poseidon.[4]

Notes

  1. Hyginus, Fabulae Preface
  2. Apollodorus, 2.4.2
  3. Hesiod, Theogony 270-274
  4. Antoninus Liberalis, 22

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