STROPHIA
Greek Name
Στροφια
Transliteration
Strophia
Latin Spelling
Strophia
Translation
Turning, Twisting (strophô, strephô)
STROPHIA was the Naiad-nymph of a spring of the town of Thebes in Boiotia (central Greece).
PARENTS
ISMENOS (Callimachus Hymn to Delos)
CLASSICAL LITERATURE QUOTES
Callimachus, Hymn 4 to Delos 75 ff (trans. Mair) (Greek poet C3rd B.C.) :
"[The rivers and springs flee before the pregnant goddess Leto, fearing the wrath of Hera should they provide her refuge :] Fled , too, Aonia [Boiotia] on the same course, and Dirke (Dirce) and Strophia [the two springs of Thebes], holding the hands of their sire, dark-pebbled Ismenos (Ismenus)."
SOURCES
GREEK
- Callimachus, Hymns - Greek Poetry C3rd B.C.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
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