Achiroë or Anchirrhoë (Greek: Ἀχιρ(ρ)όη), or according to Apollodorus Anchinoë (Ἀγχινόη),[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] she was the consort of Sithon, son of Ares, and bore him two daughters, Pallene and Rhoeteia, from whom two towns derived their names.[4][5]
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- ↑ Apollodorus, ii. 1. § 4
- ↑ Theoi Project - Ankhinoe
- ↑ Tzetzes on Lycophron 583 and 1161.
- ↑ Hegesippus in Stephanus of Byzantium s.v. Παλλήνη.
- ↑ Schmitz, Leonhard (1867), "Achiroe", in Smith, William, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, 1, Tempil Hill, MD: Nikolai Ferreira, pp. 12, http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0021.html
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- This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology by William Smith (1870).
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