In Greek mythology, the name Budeia or Budea /bjuːˈdiːə/ (Ancient Greek: Βούδεια Boúdeia, "oxen-yoker") may refer to:

• Budeia, a surname of Athena in Thessaly.^[1][2]
• Budeia, daughter of Lycus.^[3] She was the wife of the Orchomenian king, Clymenus and mother of his children, including Erginus,^[4] Stration, Arrhon, Pyleus, Azeus,^[5] Eurydice^[6] and Axia.^[7] The Boeotian town of Budeion was named after her^[8] or alternatively attributed it to the Argive hero Budeion.^[9] An alternate spelling of her name is Buzyge (Βουζύγη Bouzyge same meaning as Boudeia)

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References

• Homer, The Odyssey with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, PH.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1919. ISBN 978-0674995611. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
• Pausanias, Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. ISBN 0-674-99328-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
• Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Stephanus of Byzantium, Stephani Byzantii Ethnicorum quae supersunt, edited by August Meineike (1790-1870), published 1849. A few entries from this important ancient handbook of place names have been translated by Brady Kiesling. Online version at the Topos Text Project.

Further reading

• Smith, William (ed.) Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology
• Trümpy, Catherine (1994) 'Athena Boudeia', Z. Papyrologie Epigraphik 100, 407-412.