Pausanias' Description of Greece

Daira

Role: daughter of Oceanus · First appears: Book 1 · Chapter 38

Book 1 · Chapter 38

  • child: Eleusis (One tradition makes Daira the mother of Eleusis.) “And the hero Eleusis, from whom the city gets its name, was according to some the son of Hermes and Daira the daughter of Oceanus, others make him the son of Ogygus.”
  • parent: Oceanus “And the hero Eleusis, from whom the city gets its name, was according to some the son of Hermes and Daira the daughter of Oceanus, others make him the son of Ogygus.”

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