Pyrene (mythology)
In Greek mythology, Pyrene (Template:Lang-el) may refer to:
- Pyrene, daughter of King Bebrycius and a lover of Heracles. She bore a serpent and became so terrified that she fled to the woods where she died. Heracles created a tomb for her by piling up rocks thus forming the mountain range of the Pyrenees, named after her.[1][2][3]
- Pyrene, also called Pelopia, mother of Cycnus with Ares.[4][5]
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References
- ^ Silius Italicus, Punica, 3. 415-446
- ^ Bell's New Pantheon Or Historical Dictionary of the Gods, Demi Gods, page 203 [1]
- ^ (Anonymous) A classical manual, being a mythological, historical, and geographical commentary on Pope's Homer and Dryden's Aeneid of Virgil. London, J. Murray, 1833. p. [2]
- ^ Bibliotheca 2. 5. 1
- ^ Greek Mythology Index