Pirene

A daughter of Achelous, Oebalus or Asopus and Methone, became by Poseidon the mother of Leches and Cenchrias.1 She was regarded as the naiad of the well Pirene near Corinth, which was believed by some to have arisen out of the tears which she shed in her grief at the death of her son Cenchrias.

It was at her well that Bellerophon captured the winged horse Pegasus.

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References

Notes

  1. Pausanias. Description of Greece ii, 2.3; Diodorus Siculus. Historical Library iv, 74.
  2. Pausanias. Description of Greece ii, 3.5.

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.