Achiroe

Achiroe (Greek: Αχιρόη), or according to Apollodorus Anchinoë,^[1] which is perhaps a mistake for Anchiroë, was in Greek mythology a naiad, a daughter of the river-god Nilus. She was also the wife of Belus, by whom she became the mother of Aegyptus and Danaus, and, according to some accounts, Cepheus, and Phineus.^[2] According to the scholiast on Lycophron,^[3] Ares begot by her a son, Sithon, and according to Hegesippus,^[4] also two daughters, Pallenaea and Rhoeteia, from whom two towns derived their names.^[5]

References

^ Apollodorus, ii. 1. § 4
^ Theoi Project - Ankhinoe
^ Schol. Lycophr. 583 and 1161.
^ Hegesippus, apud Stephanus of Byzantium s.v. Παλλήνη.
^ Schmitz, Leonhard (1867), "Achiroe", in Smith, William, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, 1, Boston, MA, pp. 12

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