DIOPATRE

DIOPATRE (Diopatra) was a Naiad-nymph of a spring of the river Sperkheios (Spercheus) on Mount Othrys in Malis (northern Greece). She was loved by the god Poseidon who transformed her sisters into poplar-trees to seduce her unhindered.

Diopatre was probably the same as Eidothea.

PARENTS

[1] ZEUS (Antoninus Liberalis 22)
[2] SPERKHEIOS & DEINO (Antoninus Liberalis 22)

OFFSPRING

A SON? (by Poseidon) (Antoninus Liberalis 22)

CLASSICAL LITERATURE QUOTES

Antoninus Liberalis, Metamorphoses 22 (trans. Celoria) (Greek mythographer C2nd A.D.) :
"Kerambos (Cerabmus), son of Eusiros, who was the son of Poseidon and of Eidothea the nymphe of Othreis, lived in the land of the Melians on the spurs of Mount Othrys . . . [Kerambos claimed that] the Nymphai (Nymphs) [of Mount Othrys], were not descended from Zeus, but that Deino had given birth to them, with the River Sperkheios (Spercheus) was the father. He also said that Poseidon, for lust of one of them, Diopatre (Diopatra), had made her sisters put down roots and turned them into poplars until, satiated with his desires, he had returned them to their original shapes."

SOURCES

GREEK

• Antoninus Liberalis, Metamorphoses - Greek Mythography C2nd A.D.

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