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Okurroh
Okyrrhoê
Ocyrrhoe
Fast-Flowing
(ôkus, rhoos) |
Okuroh
Okyrhoê
Ocyrhoe, Ocyroe
Fast-Flowing
(ôkus, rhoos) |
OKYRHOE (or Ocyrhoe) was a Naiad Nymph of the River Kaikos in Teuthrania, southern Mysia (Anatolia).
She was loved by the god Hermes and bore him a son for whom the local river was named.
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| KAIKOS (Pseudo-plutarch On Rivers 21) |
| OFFSPRING |
| KAIKOS (by Hermes) (Pseudo-plutarch On Rivers 21) |
"A nymphe loved by Hermes, she bore him a son Kaikos who threw himself into the River Astraios which was thereafter called Kaikos." - R. E. Bell, Women of Classical Mythology (sourced from Pseudo-Plutarch On Rivers 21)
Sources:
- Women of Classical Mythology - English Encyclopedia of Mythology C20th AD
Other references not currently quoted here: Pseudo-Plutarch On Rivers 21
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