Dindymene
A surname of Cybele, derived either from Mount Dindymus in Phrygia, where a temple was believed to have been built to her by the Argonauts,1 or from Dindyme, the wife of Maeon and mother of Cybele.2
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References
Notes
- Apollonius Rhodius. Argonautica i, 985, with the Scholiast; Strabo. Geography xii, p. 575; Callimachus. Epigrams, 42; Horace. Carmina i, 16. 5; Catullus, 63, 91; Servius on Virgil's Aeneid ix, 617.
- Diodorus Siculus, iii, 58.
Source
- Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.