Berecynthia

A surname of Cybele, which she derived either from Mount Berecynthus, or from a fortified place of that name in Phrygia, where she was particularly worshiped. Mount Berecynthus again derived its name from Berecynthus, a priest of Cybele.

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References

Sources

  • Callimachus. Hymn to Artemis, 246.
  • Pseudo-Plutarch. On Rivers, 10.
  • Servius on Virgil's Aeneid ix, 82; vi, 785.
  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.
  • Strabo. Geography x, 472.

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