Thymbraeus

A surname of Apollo, derived from a place in Troas called Thymbra, where he had a temple in which Achilles was wounded, or from a neighboring hill of the same name.

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References

Sources

  • Euripides. Rhesus, 224.
  • Homer. Iliad x, 430.
  • Servius on Virgil's Aeneid iii, 85.
  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.
  • Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Θύμβρα.
  • Strabo. Geography xiii, p. 598.

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