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KEBREN

Greek Name

Κεβρην

Transliteration

Kebrên

Latin Spelling

Cebren

Translation

River Cebren

KEBREN (Cebren) was a river-god of the Troad in north-western Mysia, Anatolia.

The River Kebren was a tributary of the Skamandros (Scamander) whose headwaters lay in the foothills of Mount Ida near the town of Kebrene (Cebrene). Kebren may be the same as the river Heptaporos mentioned by Homer.


PARENTS

Presumably OKEANOS & TETHYS

OFFSPRING

[1.1] OINONE (Apollodorus 3.154, Nicander Frag, Cephalon of Gergitha Frag, Parthenius Love Romances 4)
[2.1] ASTEROPE (Apollodorus 3.147)
[2.2] HESPERIE (Ovid Metamorphoses 11.767)


ENCYCLOPEDIA

CEBREN (Kebrên), a river-god in Troas, the father of Asterope or Hesperie and Oenone. (Apollod. iii. 12. § 5, &c.; Ov. Met. xi. 769.)

Source: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.


CLASSICAL LITERATURE QUOTES

Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3. 147 (trans. Aldrich) (Greek mythographer C2nd A.D.) :
"Aisakos (Aescaus) [son of the Trojan king Priamos], who married Kebren's (Cebren's) daughter Asterope."

Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3. 154 :
"Alexandros (Alexander) [Paris] married Oinone (Oenone), daughter of the river Kebren (Cebren)."

Parthenius, Love Romances 4 (trans. Gaselee) (Greek poet C1st B.C.) :
"From the Book of Poets of Nikandros (Nicander) [poet of Colophon C2nd B.C.] and the Trojan History of Kephalon (Cephalon) of Gergitha : When Alexandros [Paris], Priamos' son, was tending his flocks on Mount Ida, he fell in love with Oinone (Oenone) the daughter of Kebren (Cebren) . . . Time went on, and Alexandros took Helene to wife : Oinone took his conduct exceedingly ill, and returned to Kebren, the author of her days."

Ovid, Metamorphoses 11. 767 ff (trans. Melville) (Roman epic C1st B.C. to C1st A.D.) :
"Hesperie Cebrenis (Daughter of Cebren) he saw by her father Cebren's river bank."


SOURCES

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