ALEXIRHOE
Greek Name
Αλεξιροη
Transliteration
Alexirhoê
Latin Spelling
Alexiroe
Translation
Averting Flow (alexô, rhoos)
ALEXIRHOE was a Naiad-nymph of the springs of the River Grenikos (Granicus) on Mount Ida in the Troad. She was loved by the Trojan king Priamos (Priam).
PARENTS
GRENIKOS (Ovid Metamorphoses 11.762)
OFFSPRING
AISAKOS (by Priamos) (Ovid Metamorphoses 11.762)
CLASSICAL LITERATURE QUOTES
Ovid, Metamorphoses 11. 762 ff (trans. Melville) (Roman epic C1st B.C. to C1st A.D.) :
"Alexiroe, daughter of two-horned Granicus, secretly, its said, on Ida's shady mountainside bore Aesacus [to Priam]."
SOURCES
ROMAN
- Ovid, Metamorphoses - Latin Epic C1st B.C. - C1st A.D.
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