Phoebe

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Mythology and Religion

• In Greek mythology, Phoebe referred to several people.
  • Phoebe was one of the original Titans.
  • One of the Heliades
  • Another was the daughter of Leucippus, beloved by Castor and Polydeuces and Idas and Lynceus.
  • Another name for Artemis
  • Helen's sister, daughter of Leda
• Phoebe was a Corinthian woman mentioned by the Apostle Paul in Romans 16:1 as a deaconess of the early Christian church.

Nature

• Phoebe is also the name of a small outer moon of Saturn
• Phoebe is also a genus of flowering plants in the Lauraceae family.
• Phoebe is also the common name for birds of genus Sayornis in the tyrant flycatcher family.

Technology

• Phoebe2.com is an online dictionary that combines word definitions with related links.
• Acorn Computers Ltd's never-released Phoebe RISC PC

Arts and Fiction

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• Phoebe is a word used in Jacek Dukaj's science fiction novel Perfekcyjna niedoskonałość derived from the acronym of post-human being.
• Phoebe Buffay is the name of a main character in the sitcom Friends.
• Phoebe is the younger sister of Holden Caulfield in the book Catcher in the Rye.
• Phoebe is a character from the Monster's Clubhouse segment of Sesame Street
• Phoebe is the name of one of the three Halliwell sisters on Charmed.
• Phoebe is the name of a character in the Pokémon world.
• Phoebe Terese is one of the girls in Ms. Frizzle's class on Magic School Bus.
• Phoebe is a character in the British radio soap opera The Archers.

See also HMS Phoebe.

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