Argiope

A nymph by whom Philammon begot the celebrated bard, Thamyris. She lived at first on Mount Parnassus, but when Philammon refused to take her into his house as his wife, she left Parnassus and went to the country of the Odrysians in Thrace.

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References

Sources

  • Pausanias. Description of Greece iv, 33.4.
  • Pseudo-Apollodorus. The Library i, 3.3.
  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.

This article incorporates text from Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1870) by William Smith, which is in the public domain.