| Greek Name |
Transliteration |
Latin Spelling |
Translation |
| Strofia |
Strophia |
Strophia |
Turning, Twisting
(strophô, strephô) |
STROPHIA was the Naiad nymph of a spring of the town of Thebes in Boiotia (central Greece).
| PARENTS |
| ISMENOS (Callimachus Hymn to Delos) |
Callimachus, Hymn 4 to Delos 75 ff (trans. Mair) (Greek poet C3rd B.C.) :
"[When the pregnant goddess Leto travelled from land to land seeking sanctuary, the rivers and springs fled, fearing the wrath of Hera :] Fled , too, Aonia [Boiotia] on the same course, and Dirke and Strophia [two Theban springs], holding the hands of their sire, dark-pebbled Ismenos."
Sources:
- Callimachus, Hymns - Greek Poetry C3rd B.C.
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