Dia (mythology)

In Greek Mythology there are four heroines with the name Dia (Greek Δία):

1. Dia was a daughter of Lycaon, sister of Callisto and Helike, and mother of Dryops from Apollo (Comm. Apoll. Rhod. 1, 1213).

2. Dia was a daughter of Aeolos and Telepatra (Comm. Homer Odes. κ 6).

3.Dia was a daughter of Deion (Δηίων) (or Deioneus), wife of the Lapith Ixion, mother of Pirithous, whose marriage to Hippodameia was the occasion of the Lapiths' battle with the Centaurs (Diod. Sic. 4,69 - Comm. Apoll. Rhod. 3, 62). Like many nymph mothers of heroic figures, Dia had both a mortal husband, "cloud-like" Ixion, and an immortal father of her child— Zeus, a sky-god himself, who wielded the thunderbolt. In the plains of Thessaly under all this open sky, Dia's son was a horseman. According to others, Dia was a daughter of the Athenian Boutes (Comm. Hesiod Aspis 178).

4. Dia was a daughter of Porthaon, wife of Agrios, mother of Thersites (Pherecydes, from Comm. Iliad 2, 212).

References

• Angelopoulos, Athanasios G., New Lexicon of the Greek Mythology (2000) - ISBN 960-7931-28-9