Bebryce

One of the Danaides, whom Apollodorus1 calls Bryce, and from whom the Bebryces in Bithynia were believed to have derived their name.2 Others however derived the Bebryces from a hero, Bebryx.3

❧

References

Notes

  1. The Library ii, 1.5.
  2. Eustathius on Dionysius Periegetes, 805.
  3. Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Βεβρύκων.

Source

  • 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.