Ourea
Template:Short description Template:Sidebar In Greek mythology, the Ourea (Template:Langx, plural of Template:Langx, or 'Oûros') were the parthenogenetic offspring of Gaia (Earth), produced alongside Uranus (Sky), and Pontus (Sea).<ref>Hard, p. 24; Gantz, p. 10; Caldwell, p. 5, table 3, p. 6.</ref>
According to Hesiod:
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And [Gaia] brought forth long hills [Οὔρεα], graceful haunts
of the goddess Nymphs who dwell amongst the glens of the hills.<ref>Hesiod, Theogony 129–131; cf. Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica 1.498.</ref>{{#if:|{{#if:|}}— {{#if:|, in }}Template:Comma separated entries}}
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Defined by Middle Liddell as from οὖρος "mountain, hill; mule; a guard."<ref>Middle Liddell</ref>
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- Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica translated by Robert Cooper Seaton (1853–1915), R. C. Loeb Classical Library Volume 001. London, William Heinemann Ltd, 1912. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
- Caldwell, Richard, Hesiod's Theogony, Focus Publishing/R. Pullins Company (June 1, 1987). Template:ISBN. Internet Archive.
- Fitz Simon, James A., Vincent Alphonso Fitz Simon, The Gods of Old: and The Story That They Tell, T. Fisher Unwin, 1899. p. 27
- Gantz, Timothy, Early Greek Myth: A Guide to Literary and Artistic Sources, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996, Two volumes: Template:ISBN (Vol. 1), Template:ISBN (Vol. 2).
- Hard, Robin, Herbert Jennings Rose, The Routledge Handbook of Greek Mythology: Based on H.J. Rose's "Handbook of Greek mythology", Routledge, 2004. Template:ISBN. p. 24
- Hesiod, Theogony from The Homeric Hymns and Homerica with an English Translation by Hugh G. Evelyn-White, Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1914. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
- Littleton, Scott and the Marshall Cavendish Corporation Gods, Goddesses, and Mythology, Volume 1. Marshall Cavendish, 2005. Template:ISBN. pp. 1020, 1134
- http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/morph?l=ou%29%2Frea&la=greek&can=ou%29%2Frea0&prior=o)/ros#Perseus:text:1999.04.0058:entry=o)/ros-contents