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In Greek mythology

Greek mythology

Greek mythology is the body of myths and legends belonging to the Ancient Greece concerning their List of Greek mythological figures#Immortals and Greek hero cult, Cosmology#Metaphysical cosmology, and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices....
, four people had the name Creusa (or Kreousa - ?????sa); the name means simply "princess".

rding to Pindar

Pindar

Pindar , was an Ancient Greek Lyric poetry poet.Of the canonical nine lyric poets of ancient Greece, Pindar is the one whose work is by far the best preserved, and critics in antiquity tended to regard him as the greatest....
's 9th Pythian Ode, Creusa was a naiad and daughter of Gaia

Gaia (mythology)

Gaia Gaia is a Greek primordial gods and chthonic deity in the Ancient Greek Pantheon and considered a Mother Goddess or Great Goddess....
who bore Hypseus

Hypseus

In Greek mythology, in Pindar's 9th Pythian Ode, Hypseus was King of the Lapiths, son of the river Peneus by the Naiads Creusa. He had one daughter, Cyrene ....
, King of the Lapiths to the river god Peneus

Peneus

In Greek mythology, Peneus was a river god, one of the three-thousand Rivers, a child of Oceanus and Tethys . The nymph Creusa bore him one son, Hypseus, who was King of the Lapiths, and three daughters, Cyrene, Daphne, and Stilbe...
. Hypseus had one daughter, Cyrene

Cyrene (mythology)

In Greek mythology, as recorded in Pindar's 9th Pythian ode, Cyrene was the daughter of Hypseus, King of the Lapiths. When a lion attacked her father's sheep, Cyrene wrestled with the lion....
. When a lion attacked her father's sheep, Cyrene wrestled with the lion. Apollo

Apollo

In Greek mythology and Roman mythology, Apollo , is one of the most important and many-sided of the Twelve Olympians. The ideal of the kouros , Apollo has been variously recognized as a god of light and the sun; truth and prophecy; archery; medicine and healing; music, poetry, and the arts; and more....
happened along and immediately fell in love with her and kidnapped her.

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Greek mythology

Naiad

According to Pindar

Pindar

Gaia (mythology)

Gaia Gaia is a Greek primordial gods and chthonic deity in the Ancient Greek Pantheon and considered a Mother Goddess or Great Goddess....
who bore Hypseus

Hypseus

Peneus

Cyrene (mythology)

Apollo

Cyrene, Libya

Cyrene was an ancient Greece colony in present-day Libya, the oldest and most important of the five Greek cities in the region. It gave eastern Libya the classical name Cyrenaica that it has retained to modern times....
in her name. The region, Cyrenaica

Cyrenaica

Cyrenaica or Cirenaica is the eastern coastal region of Libya and also an ex-province or state of the country in the pre-1963 administrative system....
, is also named for her. Together, she and Apollo had one son: Aristaeus

Aristaeus

A minor god in Greek mythology, which we read largely through Athenian writers, Aristaeus or Aristaios , "ever close follower of the flocks", was the culture hero credited with the discovery of many useful arts, including bee-keeping; he was the son of Apollo and the huntress Cyrene ....
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Daughter of Creon

Creusa was the daughter of King Creon

Creon

Creon is a figure in Greek mythology best known as the ruler of Thebes,_Greece in the legend of Oedipus. He was the father of Menoeceus and Megara by his wife, Eurydice of Thebes....
of Corinth, Greece. After Jason

Jason

Jason was a late ancient Greece Greek mythology figure, famous as the leader of the Argonauts and their quest for the Golden Fleece. He was the son of Aeson, the rightful king of Iolcus....
divorced Medea

Medea

Medea is a woman in Greek mythology. She was the daughter of Aeetes of Colchis, niece of Circe, granddaughter of the sun god Helios, and later wife to the hero Jason, with whom she had two children: Mermeros and Pheres....
, he married Creusa. Medea obtained her revenge by giving Creusa a dress which Medea had cursed. The curse caused the dress to stick to Creusa's body and burn her to death as soon as she put it on. Also known by Greek authors by the name Glauce

Glauce

In Greek mythology, Glauce refers to seven different people:#Glauce, daughter of Creon. She married Jason. She was killed, along with Jason's children, by his wife, Medea....
, e.g. in Apollodorus's Bibliotheca 1.9.28.

Daughter of Priam

Creusa was the daughter of Priam

Priam

In Greek mythology, Priam was the king of Troy during the Trojan War and youngest son of Laomedon. Modern scholars derive his name from the Luwian compound Priimuua, which means "exceptionally courageous"....
, wife of Aeneas

Aeneas

This article is about the Roman hero. For other uses, see Aeneas .In Greco-Roman mythology, Aeneas was a Troy hero, the son of prince Anchises and the goddess Venus_....
, mother of Ascanius

Ascanius

In Greek mythology and Roman mythology, Ascanius was the son of Aeneas and Creusa. After the Trojan War, as the city burned, Aeneas escaped to Latium in Italy, taking his father Anchises and his child Ascanius with him, though Creusa died during the escape....
. In Virgil

Virgil

Publius Vergilius Maro was a classical Roman poet, best known for three major works?the Bucolics , the Georgics and the Aeneid?although several Appendix Vergiliana are also attributed to him....
's Aeneid
Aeneid

The Aeneid is a Latin Epic poetry written by Virgil in the late 1st century BC that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Troy who traveled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Rome....
she died escaping from Troy

Troy

Troy is a legendary city and center of the Trojan War, as described in the Epic Cycle, and especially in the Iliad, one of the two epic poems attributed to Homer....
during the sack of Troy by the Greeks.

Daughter of Erechtheus

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Creusa was the daughter of Erechtheus

Erechtheus

Erechtheus in Greek mythology was the name of an archaic king of Athens, the re-founder of the polis and a double at Athens for Poseidon, as "Poseidon Erechtheus"....
, King of Athens and his wife, Praxithea

Praxithea

In Greek mythology, Praxithea or Pasithea was a name attributed to five women....
, who was spared the fate of her sisters, who died in order to protect Athens, because she was an infant. According to Hesiod

Hesiod

Hesiod was a Greek language oral poet, his date is uncertain but leading scholars agree that Hesiod lived in the latter half of the Eighth-century BCE....
's Eoiae she was mother of a son Achaeus

Achaeus, son of Xuthus

Achaeus was, according to nearly all traditions, a son of Xuthus and Creusa, and conse?quently a brother of Ionas and grandson of Hellen. The Achaeans regarded him as the author of their race, and derived from him their own name as well as that of Achaia, which was formerly called Aegialus....
, a daughter named Diomede

Diomede

Diomede is the name of three women in Greek mythology....
, and presumably another son Ion, but according to Euripides

Euripides

Euripides was the last of the three great tragedy of classical Athens . Ancient scholars thought that Euripides had written ninety-five plays, although four of those were probably written by Critias....
' Ion
Ion (play)

Ion is an ancient Greek play by Euripides, thought to be written between 414 and 412 BC. It follows the orphan Ionas in the discovery of his origins....
, in which she is a prominent character, she was mother of Ion by Apollo and of Achaeus and Dorus

Dorus

In Greek mythology, Dorus is the name of several individuals:#Dorus was a son of Hellen and founder of the Dorian nation. Each of Hellen's sons founded a primary tribe of Greece - Aeolus the Aeolians, Dorus the Dorians and Xuthus the Achaeans and the Ionians together with his sister's Pandora's sons with Zeus and according to Hesiod's "...
by her husband Xuthus

Xuthus

In Greek mythology, Xuthus was a son of Hellen and Orseis and founder of the Achaeans and Ionians nations. He had two sons by Creusa: Ionas and Achaeus, son of Xuthus and a daughter named Diomede....
. This is the only source which names Apollo as Ion's father, so it may have been invented for the play.

Creusa

Naiad

Daughter of Creon

Daughter of Priam

Daughter of Erechtheus

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