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InGreek mythology,Creusa (/kriːˈuːsə/;Ancient Greek:ΚρέουσαKreousa "princess" ) was aThessaliannaiadnymph and daughter ofGaia (Earth).[1]
Creusa boreHypseus, the future king of theLapiths, andStilbe to the river godPeneus.[2] Through Hypseus, she was the grandmother ofCyrene, one of the best known lovers ofApollo while her daughter, Stilbe, gave birth to twin sons to the same god. These sons wereLapithes andCentaurus progenitors of the warrior tribe, Lapiths and the wild half-beasts,Centaurs.
In another version of the myth, Creusa was called the daughter of Peneus andNaïs.[3] According toPherecydes, the latter was also the reputed mother of Hypseus by the same river god.[4] In one account, the mother of the Lapith king was calledPhilyra.[5]
"...in the renowned glens ofMt. Pindus a Naiad bore him (Hypseus),Creusa the daughter of Gaia, delighting in the bed of the river-god Peneius."
"He (Peneus) lay with the nymph named Creüsa and begat as children Hypseus and Stilbê, and with the latter Apollo lay and begat Lapithes and Centaurus."
