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Alexiroh
Alexirhoe, Alexiroe
Averting Flow
(alexô, rhoos) |
ALEXIRHOE was a Naiad Nymph of the springs of the River Grenikos on Mount Ida in the Troad. She was loved by the Trojan King Priamos.
| PARENTS |
| GRENIKOS (Ovid Metamorphoses 11.762) |
| OFFSPRING |
| AISAKOS (by Priamos) (Ovid Metamorphoses 11.762) |
"Alexiroe, daughter of two-horned Granicus, secretly, its said, on Ida's shady mountainside bore Aesacus [to Priam]." - Ovid, Metamorphoses 11.762
Sources:
- Ovid, Metamorphoses - Latin Epic C1st BC - C1st AD
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