| Greek Name |
Transliteration |
Latin Spelling |
Translation |
| Ἱερομνημη |
Hieromnêmê |
Hieromneme |
Memory of Holy Rites
(hieros, mnêma) |
HIEROMNEME was a Naiad Nymph of a spring of the River Simoeis on Mount Ida in the Troad (north-western Anatolia). She was the wife the Dardanian prince Assarakos.
Her name connects her with holy rites of the Great Mother Goddess celebrated on Mount Ida. Hieromneme's grandson Ankhises was a mortal lover of the goddess Aphrodite. The equivalents of Kybele and Attis in the Phrygian cult.
| PARENTS |
| SIMOEIS (Apollodorus 3.141) |
| OFFSPRING |
| KAPYS (by Assarakos) (Apollodorus 3.141) |
Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3. 141 (trans. Aldrich) (Greek mythographer C2nd A.D.) :
"Assarakos (Assaracus) [prince of Dardania] and [the River] Simoeis' daughter Hieromneme were parents of Kapys (Capys)."
Sources:
- Apollodorus, The Library - Greek Mythography C2nd BC
Other references not currently quoted here: Dionysius of Halicarnassus 1.62.2
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