Boios
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Boios (Βοῖος), Latinized Boeus, was a Greek grammarian and mythographer, remembered chiefly as the author of a lost work on the transformations of mythic figures into birds, his Ornithogonia[1]. Ornithogonia was translated into Latin by Aemilius Macer, a friend of Ovid, who was the author of the most familiar such collections of metamorphoses.[2] In the 2nd century CE, Antoninus Liberalis gave extremely brief summaries of the contents of some of the myths collected in Ornithogonia.
Boiai, Latinized Boeae, was a village in Lacedaemon, at the head of the Gulf of Laconia, that, as Pausanias was informed, had been founded by the eponymous Boeus, one of the Heracleidae (Pausanias, iii.22.12).
References
[edit]- ^ Hunter, Richard (2005-07-14). The Hesiodic Catalogue of Women: Constructions and Reconstructions. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-139-44404-0.
- ^ Knox, Peter E. (2009-04-29). A Companion to Ovid. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-1-4443-1061-0.