- Pronoe
Pronoe ("forethought") refers to five characters in
Greek mythology .1. Pronoe, one of the
Nereids . [Hesiod, Theogony, 240 [http://www.theoi.com/Text/HesiodTheogony.html] ]2. Pronoe, daughter of
Phorbus . She married Aetolus and bore himPleuron andCalydon . [Apollodorus, Library, 1.7.7 [http://www.theoi.com/Text/Apollodorus1.html] ]3. Pronoe, daughter of
Melampus , king ofArgos , andIphianira , daughter ofMegapenthes . She was considered to be a seer. [Diodorus Siculus, The Library of History 4.68.5 [http://www.theoi.com/Text/DiodorusSiculus4D.html] ]4. Pronoe, a
nymph . She was the mother of the TrojanLassus . Lassus was killed byPodalirus during theTrojan war . [Quintus Smyrnaeus, The Fall of Troy, 6.497 [http://www.theoi.com/Text/QuintusSmyrnaeus6.html] ]5. Pronoe, a naiad of a river in
Lycia . She told Caunus what had happened to his sisterByblis (that she had killed himself), and persuaded him to stay with her on condition that he receive rulership of the country of Lycia orCaria . The couple had a sonAegialus who inherited the kingdom upon his father's death. [Conon, Narratives (Diegeseis)]References
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