Argyra

The nymph of a well in Achaea, was in love with a beautiful shepherd-boy, Selemnus, and visited him frequently, but when his youthful beauty vanished, she forsook him. The boy now pined away with grief, and Aphrodite, moved to pity, changed him into the river Selemnus.

There was a popular belief in Achaea, that if an unhappy lover bathed in the water of this river, he would forget the grief of his love.

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References

Sources

  • Pausanias. Description of Greece vii, 23.2.
  • 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.