Byssa
Byssa is the daughter of Eumelus and sister of Agron and Meropis. She dwelt at Meropis in Kos and worshipped Gaia, who rewarded them with all kinds of goods. Byssa was transformed into a bird known as "byssa", sacred to Leucothea.
↻ synthesized from 2 sources
When
- First attested
- 800 BCE
- Attested period
- -800 – 2020
- Historical notes
- Classical Greece
Relationships
- sibling of
- Agron
- manifests as
- bird known as "byssa", bird
- co occurs with
- Meropis, Leucothea, Artemis (Diana), Hermes, Athena
- child of
- Eumelus
Mentioned by
Sources
Source passages
“In Greek mythology, Agron(Ancient Greek: Ἄγρων, lit. 'wild' or 'rustic') was a son of Eumelus and brother of Byssa and Meropis. Byssa was transformed into a bird known as "byssa", sacred to Leucothea, and Agron was changed by Hermes into a plover.”
#42293 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“It has been suggested that the bird Byssa turned into is some sort of horned owl, given its resemblance to the words buza, buxa and buas (which refer to owls), but Francis Celoria noted that a bird sacred to Leucothea would surely have to be some sort of seabird, a shearwater or a gull.”
#42389 · extracted by deepseek/deepseek-chat