Creusa

For the town of ancient Boeotia, see Creusa (Boeotia).

In Greek mythology, Creusa (/kriːˈjuːsə/; Ancient Greek: Κρέουσα Kreousa "princess") may refer to the following figures:

• Creusa, a naiad daughter of Gaia.^[1]
• Creusa, daughter of Erechtheus, King of Athens and his wife, Praxithea.^[2]
• Creusa, also known by the name Glauce, was the daughter of King Creon of Corinth, Greece.
• Creusa, an Amazon spearwoman in a painting on a vase from Cumae that depicts a battle of the Amazons against Theseus and his army; she is portrayed as being overcome by Phylacus.^[3]
• Creusa, daughter of Priam and Hecuba,^[4] and the first wife of Aeneas, by whom she was the mother of Ascanius.
• Creusa, wife of the Carian Cassandrus and mother by him of Menes. Her son was killed by Neoptolemus in the Trojan War.^[5]
• Creusa, a misnomer for Keroessa in the Etymologicum Magnum.^[6]