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1. According to Pindar's 9th Pythian Ode, Creusa was a naiad and daughter of Gaia who bore Hypseus, King of the Lapiths to the river god Peneus. Hypseus had one daughter, Cyrene. When a lion attacked her father's sheep, Cyrene wrestled with the lion. Apollo happened along and immediately fell in love with her and kidnapped her. He took her to North Africa and founded the city of Cyrene in her name. The region, Cyrenaica, is also named for her. Together, she and Apollo had one son: Aristaeus.
2. Daughter of King Creon of Corinth, Greece. After Jason divorced MedeaIn Greek mythology Medea was the daughter of King Aeetes (Georgian Ayeti of Colchis (Georgian Kolkheti now a territory of modern Georgia) and niece of Circe, and later wife to Jason. In Greek eyes she was a witch or sorceress; to an archaeologist her powe, he married Creusa. Medea got even by giving Creusa a cursed dress that stuck to her body and burned her to death as soon as she put it on.
3. Daughter of PriamIn Greek mythology, Priam ( Greek Priamos was the king of Troy during the Trojan War, and son of Laomedon. Priam had a number of wives (his first was Arisbe); his chief wife, Hecuba, bore him twenty children. Another wife, Laothoe, was the mother of Lycao, wife of AeneasAeneas or Aineas was a famous Trojan hero, son of Anchises and Aphrodite, father of Ascanius with Creusa, and one of the most important figures in Greek and Roman legendary history. In Homer's stories, he is represented as the chief bulwark of the Trojans, mother of AscaniusIn Greek and Roman mythology, Ascanius was a son of Aeneas and Creusa. After the Trojan War, Aeneas escaped to Latium in Italy with his father and fought in the Italian Wars. Virgil's Aeneid says he had a role in the founding of Rome as the first king of. In VirgilFor other uses see Virgil (disambiguation). Publius Vergilius Maro ( October 15, 70 19 BC) known in English as Virgil or Vergil Latin poet, is the author of the Eclogues the Georgics and the Aeneid this last being a narrative poem in twelve books that is's Aeneid she died escaping from TroyThis article is about the city of Troy / Ilion as described in the works of Homer, and the location of an ancient city associated with it. For other uses see Troy (disambiguation) and Ilion (disambiguation). Troy ( Greek Τροα Troia ( during the sack of Troy by the Greeks.
4. Daughter of ErechtheusErechtheus in Greek Mythology was the name of one king of Athens and a secondary name for another. In Homer's Iliad the name is applied to the earth-born son of Hephaestus later mostly called Erichthonius by later writers. Accordingly this Erichthonius is, mother of a son AchaeusIn Greek mythology and history, Achaeus is the name of several individuals. The founder of Achaean race. He was a son of Xuthus and Creusa. He fled Thessaly, after the accidental murder of a man, to Peloponnesus. His sons and the inhabitants of the area w, a daughter named Diomede, and presumably another son Ion according to Hesiod's Ehoeae but according to Euripides' Ion she was mother of Ion by Apollo and of Achaeus and Dorus by her husband Xuthus.