Dia

• The old name of the island of Naxos, Ov. M. 3, 690; 8, 174. —
• II A city in the Chersonesus Taurica, Plin. 4, 12, 26, § 86.—
• III An island near Crete, now Standia, id. 4, 12, 20, § 61.—
• • B A woman's name.
• I The mother of Mercury, Cic. N. D. 3, 22, 56.—
• II The wife of Ixion, and mother of Pirithous, Hyg. F. 155.

(Δία), a daughter of Deioneus and the wife of Ixion. (Schol. ad Pind. Pyth 2.39.) Her father is also called Eioneus. (Diod. 4.69; Schol. ad Apollon. Rhod. 3.62.) By Ixion, or according to others, by Zeus (Hyg. Fab. 155), she became the mother of Peirithous, who received his name from the circumstance, that Zeus when he attempted to seduce her, ran around her (περιθέειν) in the form of a horse. (Eustath. ad Hom. p. 101.) There are two other mythical personages of this name. ( Schol. ad Pind. 01. 1.144; Tzetz. ad Lycop. 480.) Dia is also used as a surname of Hebe or Ganymede, who had temples under this name at Phlius and Sicyon. (Strab. viii. p.382; Paus. 2.13.3.) [L.S]

DIA (Δία), a small island which lies 40 stadia (Stadiasm. ) from the Heracleium of Cnossus in Crete (Strab. 10. p. 484; Plin. Nat. 4.20); the modern Standia. (Map of Crete, Mus. Class. Antiq. vol. 2. p. 308.)

DIA (Δῖα: Eth. Διεύς), a town of Bithynia on the Pontus.( Steph. B. s. v. Δῖα.) Marcian (Peripl. p. 70) places it 60 stadia east of the mouth of the Hypius, which river is between the Sangarius and Heraclea. The name in Marcian, Δίας πόλις, may be a mistake for Diospolis, which Ptolemy has (5.1). It seems probable that the Dia of Stephanus and this Diospolis are the same. There are some very rare coins with the epigraph Διας, which Sestini assigns to this place.

DIA [BOSPORUS, 422a.]

(Δία). The daughter of Dioneus and wife of Ixion (q.v.), by whom (or, according to others, by Zeus) she became the mother of Pirithoüs (q.v.).

(Δία). The ancient name of Naxos (q.v.).