Pyrene (mythology)
In Greek mythology, Pyrene (Ancient Greek: Πυρήνη, romanized: Purḗnē) may refer to:
- Pyrene, daughter of King Bebrycius and a lover (or victim, depending on the myth) of Heracles. She bore a serpent and became so terrified that she fled to the woods where she died. Heracles cried out her name in grief upon finding her remains, which name echoed across the mountain range of the Pyrenees, causing them to be named after her.[1][2][3]
- Pyrene, also called Pelopia, mother of Cycnus with Ares.[4]
Notes
- ^ Silius Italicus, Punica 3.415–446
- ^ Bell's New Pantheon Or Historical Dictionary of the Gods, Demi Gods, page 203 [1]
- ^ (Anonymous) A classical manual, being a mythological, historical, and geographical commentary on Pope's Homer and Dryden's Aeneid of Virgil. London, J. Murray, 1833. p. [2]
- ^ Apollodorus, 2.5.11
References
- Apollodorus, The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. ISBN 0-674-99135-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.