Lysianassa (; Ancient Greek: Λυσιάνασσα means 'the redeeming mistress'
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Lysianassa, the Nereids of royal delivery
[Hesiod, Theogony 258; Apollodorus, 1.2.7]
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Lysianassa, an Ancient Egypt princess as the daughter of King Epaphus
[Apollodorus, 2.5.11 (Timothy Gantz, p. 418)] probably either by Memphis[Apollodorus, 2.1.4; Tzetzes ad Lycophron, 894.] or Cassiopeia.[Hyginus, Fabulae 149] She bore Poseidon a son, Busiris, King of Egypt who was killed by Heracles.[Apollodorus, 2.5.11; compare with Plutarch, Parallela minora 38 with Agatho the Samian as the authority claiming: "Busiris's mother was Anippe, daughter of the river-god Nilus"] Lysianassa's possible sister, Libya also bore to Poseidon twin sons, Agenor and Belus.[Hyginus, Fabulae 160]
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Lysianassa, a princess as the daughter of King Polybus. She married King Talaus of Ancient Argos and bore him Adrastus and Mecisteus.
[Herodotus, 5.67 (MIT - Classics); Pausanias, 2.6.6]
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Lysianassa, a Troy princess as the daughter of King Priam of Troy.
[Hyginus, Fabulae 90]
Notes
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Apollodorus, The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. ISBN 0-674-99135-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
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Gaius Julius Hyginus, Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
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Herodotus, The Histories with an English translation by A. D. Godley. Cambridge. Harvard University Press. 1920. . Online version at the Topos Text Project. Greek text available at Perseus Digital Library.
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Hesiod, Theogony from The Homeric Hymns and Homerica with an English Translation by Hugh G. Evelyn-White, Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1914. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
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Kerényi, Carl, The Gods of the Greeks, Thames and Hudson, London, 1951.
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Plutarch, Moralia with an English Translation by Frank Cole Babbitt. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1936. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
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Pausanias, Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. . Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
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Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
