Ino (Greek mythology)

In Greek mythology, Ino (/ˈn/ EYE-noh; Ancient Greek: Ἰνώ [iːnɔ̌ː]) was a Theban princess who later became a queen of Boeotia. After her death and transfiguration, she was worshiped as a goddess under her epithet Leucothea, the "white goddess." Alcman called her "Queen of the Sea" (θαλασσομέδουσα thalassomédousa), which, if not hyperbole, would make her a doublet of Amphitrite.

Ino
Queen of Boeotia
Member of the Theban Royal Family
Leucothea (1862)
by Jean Jules Allasseur (1818-1903).
South façade of the Cour Carrée in the Palais du Louvre.
Other namesLeucothea
AbodeThebes, later Athamantia in Boeotia
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ParentsCadmus and Harmonia
SiblingsAgave, Autonoë, Semele and Polydorus
ConsortAthamas
OffspringLearchus and Melicertes
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