Greek Name:
Transliteration:
Latin Spelling:
Translation: |
`Ieromnhmh
Hieromnênê
Memory Holy Rites
(hieros, mnêma) |
HIEROMNEME was a Naiad Nymph of a spring of the River Simoeis on Mount Ida in the Troad (Anatolia). She was the wife the Dardanian prince Assarakos.
Her name connects her with holy rites of the Great Mother Goddess celebrated on Mount Ida. Hieromneme's grandson Ankhises was a mortal lover of the goddess Aphrodite. The equivalents of Kybele and Attis in the Phrygian cult.
| PARENTS |
| SIMOEIS (Apollodorus 3.141) |
| OFFSPRING |
| KAPYS (by Assarakos) (Apollodorus 3.141) |
"Assarakos [prince of Dardania] and Simoeis’ daughter Hieromneme were parents of Kapys." - Apollodorus, The Library 3.141
Sources:
- Apollodorus, The Library - Greek Mythography C2nd BC
Other references not currently quoted here: Dionysius of Halicarnassus 1.62.2
|
