Gryneus

A surname of Apollo, under which he had a temple, an ancient oracle, and a beautiful grove near the town of Grynion, Gryna, or Grynus in Aeolis in Asia Minor.

Under the similar, if not the same name, Γρυνεύς, Apollo was worshiped in the Hecatonnesi.1

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References

Notes

  1. Strabo. Geography xiii, p. 618.

Sources

  • Athenaeus, iv, p. 149.
  • Pausanias. Description of Greece i, 21.9.
  • Servius on Virgil's Eclogues vi, 72.
  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.
  • Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Γρύνοι.

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