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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....
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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....
, Polydora was a name attributed to several individuals:

  • Polydora was the daughter of either Peleus
    Peleus

    In Greek mythology, Pele?s was a Greek hero cult who was already known to Homer. Peleus was the son of Aeacus, king of the island of Aegina, and Ende?s, the oread of Mount Pelion in Thessaly; he became the father of Achilles....
     and Antigone
    Antigone

    Antigone is the name of two different women in Greek mythology. The name may be taken to mean "unbending", coming from "anti-" and "-gon / -gony" , but has also been suggested to mean "opposed to motherhood" or "in place of a mother" based from the root gone, "that which generates" ....
    , or Perieres
    Perieres

    In Greek mythology, Perieres or Perieris, was a son of Aeolus#Son of Poseidon and husband of Gorgophone. He was the father of Leucippus and Aphareus....
     and Gorgophone
    Gorgophone

    In Greek mythology, Gorgophone was a daughter of Perseus and Andromeda . Her name means "Gorgon Slayer", a tribute to her father who killed Medusa, the mortal Gorgon....
    . An affair with Spercheus
    Spercheus

    In Greek mythology, Spercheus or Spercheios was the name of a river in Thessaly , and of the god of that river. According to Antoninus Liberalis , the nymphs of Mount Othrys were daughters of Spercheus by Deino, whether the same Deino elsewhere named as one of the Graeae or another is not said....
     led to the birth of Menesthius; she also had an affair with Peleus
    Peleus

    In Greek mythology, Pele?s was a Greek hero cult who was already known to Homer. Peleus was the son of Aeacus, king of the island of Aegina, and Ende?s, the oread of Mount Pelion in Thessaly; he became the father of Achilles....
    . Her husband was Borus.
  • Polydora was the daughter of Meleager
    Meleager

    In Greek mythology, Meleager was the son of Althaea and Oeneus and, according to some accounts father of Parthenopeus and Polydora. His story has similarities with the Scandinavian Norna-Gests ??ttr....
     and Cleopatra
    Cleopatra Alcyone

    Cleopatra Alcyone was the daughter of Idas and Marpessa and the wife of Meleager; she died with grief when her husband was killed by Apollo. ...
    , and the wife of Protesilaus
    Protesilaus

    In Greek mythology, Protesilaus , was a hero in the Iliad who was venerated in Thessaly and Thrace. Protesilaus was the son of Iphicles and the leader of the Phylaceans....
    . After her husband's death, she crafted an image of him and enjoyed its company. Hermes
    Hermes

    Hermes is the messenger of the gods in Greek mythology. An Twelve Olympians, he is also the patron of boundaries and of the travelers who cross them, of shepherds and cowherds, of thieves and road travelers, of orators and wit, of literature and poets, of athletics, of weights and measures, of invention, of general commerce, and of the cunni...
     took pity and returned her husband from Hades
    Hades

    Hades refers both to the ancient Greek underworld, the abode of Hades, and to the god of the underworld. Hades in Homer referred just to the god; the genitive case , Haidou, was an elision to denote locality: "[the house/dominion] of Hades"....
    , but when the shade tried to return to the underworld with his wife, she committed suicide.
  • Polydora was one of the Oceanids.
  • Polydora was the daughter of Danaus
    Danaus

    Danaus, or Danaos , was a Greek mythology, twin brother of Aegyptus and son of Achiroe and Belus , a mythical king of Ancient Egypt. The myth of Danaus is a foundation legend of Argos, one of the foremost Mycenaean Greece cities of the Peloponnesus....
     (but was not one of the Danaids). With Sperchius she was mother to Dryops
    Dryops

    In Greek mythology, Dryops was the name of several individuals:#The father of Dryope.#A son of Apollo.#One of the fifty sons of Priam.#An associate of Aeneas....
    .
  • Polydora was one of the Amazons
    Amazons

    The Amazons , ) are a nation of all-female warriors in Classical and Greek mythology, who were possibly historical. Herodotus placed them in a region bordering Scythia in Sarmatians....
    .
  • Polydora (Polychaete) a genus of annelid worm.