Orphne
Template:Short description Template:Redirect Template:For In Greek mythology, Orphne (Template:IPAc-en Template:Respell; Template:Langx, from Template:Langx) was a nymph that lived in Hades. She was also known as Styx (Template:IPAc-en Template:Respell; Template:Langx) or Gorgyra (Template:IPAc-en Template:Respell; Template:Langx, from Template:Langx).<ref>Fontenrose, p. 287.</ref> With Acheron, she mothered Ascalaphus.<ref>Fontenrose, p. 287; Apollodorus, 1.5.3; Ovid, Metamorphoses 5.539–41.</ref>
Orphne also seems to be one translation of the name of the Roman goddess Caligo (Darkness).<ref>Fontenrose, p. 223.</ref>
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- Apollodorus, Apollodorus. The Library, Volume I: Books 1-3.9, translated by James G. Frazer, Loeb Classical Library No. 121, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1921. Template:ISBN. Online version at Harvard University Press. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Fontenrose, Joseph Eddy (1959), Python: A Study of Delphic Myth and Its Origins, University of California Press, 1959. Template:ISBN. Google Books.
- Ovid, Metamorphoses, edited and translated by Brookes More, Boston, Cornhill Publishing Co., 1922. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Online version at ToposText.