Pimpleis

Or Pimplea, a surname of the Muses, derived from Mount Pimplias in Pieria, which was sacred to them. Some place this mountain in Boeotia, and call Mount Helicon Πιμπλείας κοπή (Pimpleias kopē).

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References

Sources

  • Palatine Anthology v, 206.
  • Horace. Odes, i, 26. 9.
  • Lycophron. Alexandra, 275.
  • Scholiast on Apollonius Rhodius, i, 25.
  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.
  • Strabo. Geography x, p. 471.

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