Eunoë
Eunoë. One account of the parentage of
Hecuba (wife of King
Priam of
Troy and mother of
Hector,
Paris and seventeen others) identifies Eunoë, a
nymph sometimes associated with
Persephone, as her mother.
The name, meaning "good mind," is also applied to a river described in the
Purgatorio of
Dante Alighieri. Before they may proceed to Paradise, souls who have completed their appointed course of suffering must drink first from the River
Lethe, causing them to forget their sinful ways, and then from the River Eunoë, which strengthens and purifies the remembrance of their good deads and honorable intentions.