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Deione

Δηϊώνη

(Δηϊώνη), that is, the daughter of Deo or Demeter, is used as a name for Persephone. (Callimach. Fragm. 48.) It occurs also as a proper name of the mother of Miletus. (Ov. Met. 9.442.)

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.