Mendeis Explained

In Greek mythology, Mendeis (Ancient Greek: Μενδέις) was a Thracian nymph who became the mother of Pallene by King Sithon. Her husband had the habit of killing one by one the suitors of her daughter.^[1] In some accounts, Pallene's mother was called Anchiroe instead.^[2] Mendeis might have been associated with the city of Mende.

Notes

1. [Conon (mythographer)|Conon]
2. [John Tzetzes|Tzetzes]

References

• Conon, Fifty Narrations, surviving as one-paragraph summaries in the Bibliotheca (Library) of Photius, Patriarch of Constantinople translated from the Greek by Brady Kiesling. Online version at the Topos Text Project.