Despoena
Δέσποινα
(Δέσποινα), the ruling goddess or the mistress, occurs as a surname of several divinities, such as Aphrodite (Theocrit. 15.100), Demeter (Aristoph. Thes. 286), and Persephone. (Paus. 8.37.6; comp. PERSEPHONE.)
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.