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Petraea

Πετραία

(Πετραία), is the name of one of the Oceanides, and also occurs as a surname of Scylla, who dwelt in or on a rock. 357 (Hes. Th. 357; Hom. Od. 12.231.)

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.