In Greek mythology, Bura (/ˈbjʊərə/ BURE-ə; Ancient Greek: Βούρα, romanized: Boúra) was a daughter of Ion, son of Xuthus, and Helice. She was the eponym of the city Boura in Achaea.[1]
She is possibly the same as Bura, mother of Atrax by Peneus.[2]
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[edit]- 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.