Sinope

A naiad daughter of Asopus by Metope, or of Ares by Aegina or Parnassa. Apollo carried her off from Boeotia, and conveyed her to Paphlagonia on the Euxine, where she gave birth to Syrus, and where the town of Sinope was named after her.

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References

Sources

  • Diodorus Siculus. Historical Library iv, 72.
  • Scholiast on Apollonius Rhodius, ii, 946.
  • 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.