Imbrasia

A surname of Artemis,1 and of Hera, derived from the river Imbrasus, in Samos, on which the goddess was believed to have been born.

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References

Notes

  1. Callimachus. Hymn to Artemis, 228.
  2. Apollonius Rhodius. Argonautica i, 187; Pausanias. Description of Greece vii, 4.4.

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.