| Greek Name |
Transliteration |
Latin Spelling |
Translation |
| Αλεξιροη |
Alexirhoê |
Alexiroe |
Averting Flow
(alexô, rhoos) |
ALEXIRHOE was a Naiad Nymph of the springs of the River Grenikos on Mount Ida in the Troad. She was loved by the Trojan King Priamos.
| PARENTS |
| GRENIKOS (Ovid Metamorphoses 11.762) |
| OFFSPRING |
| AISAKOS (by Priamos) (Ovid Metamorphoses 11.762) |
Ovid, Metamorphoses 11. 762 ff (trans. Melville) (Roman epic C1st B.C. to C1st A.D.) :
"Alexiroe, daughter of two-horned Granicus, secretly, its said, on Ida's shady mountainside bore Aesacus [to Priam]."
Sources:
- Ovid, Metamorphoses - Latin Epic C1st BC - C1st AD
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