Salamis

A daughter of Asopus, and by Poseidon the mother of Cenchreus or Cychreus. From her the island of Salamis was believed by the ancients to have received its name.

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References

Sources

  • Diodorus Siculus, iv, 72.
  • Pausanias. Description of Greece i, 35.2.
  • Pseudo-Apollodorus. The Library iii, 12.7.
  • 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.