In Greek mythology, Orithyia or Oreithyia (;[Joseph Emerson Worcester, A comprehensive dictionary of the English language, Boston, 1871, p. 480, rule 3, where he notes that the pronunciation of such names is not e.g. "as in Walker" (see e.g. Walker and Trollope, A key to the classical pronunciation etc., London, 1830, p. 123)] ; ) was the name of the following women:
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Orithyia or Orythya,
[Hyginus, Fabulae Preface (Latin ed. Jacob Micyllus; Scheffero)] the Nereids of raging seas[Homer, Iliad 18.48] She and her other sisters appear to Thetis when she cries out in sympathy for the grief of Achilles at the slaying of his lover Patroclus.[Homer, Iliad 18.39-51]
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Orithyia, a daughter of Cecrops I, wife of Makednos and mother of Europus.
[Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Eurōpos]
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Orithyia, a daughter of Erechtheus, who was abducted by Boreas.
[Apollodorus, 3.15.1]
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Orithyia, a nymph, called by some the grandmother of Adonis.
[Antoninus Liberalis, 34]
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Orithyia, queen of the Amazons.
[Apollodorus, 2.5.9]
Notes
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Antoninus Liberalis, The Metamorphoses of Antoninus Liberalis translated by Francis Celoria (Routledge 1992). Online version at the Topos Text Project.
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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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Homer, Iliad with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, Ph.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924. . Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
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Homer, Homeri Opera in five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920. . Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
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Stephanus of Byzantium, Stephani Byzantii Ethnicorum quae supersunt, edited by August Meineike (1790–1870), published 1849. A few entries from this important ancient handbook of place names have been translated by Brady Kiesling. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
