Polydora (/ˌpɒlɪˈdɔːrə/; Ancient Greek: Πολυδώρᾱ in Attic and Πολυδώρη in Ionic, means 'many-gifts' or 'the shapely'[1]) was the name of several characters in Greek mythology:

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References

  1. 1 2 Bane, Theresa (2013). Encyclopedia of Fairies in World Folklore and Mythology. McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers. p. 279. ISBN 9780786471119.
  2. Kerényi, Carl (1951). The Gods of the Greeks. London: Thames and Hudson. p. 41.
  3. Hesiod, Theogony 354
  4. Antoninus Liberalis, 32
  5. Scholiast on Apollonius Rhodius, 1.1212
  6. Scholia on Apollonius Rhodius, 1.152 with a reference to Peisander for Polydora
  7. Apollodorus, 3.10.3
  8. Theocritus, Idyll 22.206; Scholia on Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.152, with a reference to Theocritus for Laocoosa
  9. Apollodorus, 3.13.4; Eustathius on Homer, p. 321
  10. Homer, Iliad 16.177
  11. Apollodorus, 3.13.4
  12. Pausanias, 4.2.7
  13. Hyginus, Fabulae 163

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