Alope (spring)

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Alope (Ancient Greek: Ἀλόπη, romanizedAlópē) was a famed spring on the road from Eleusis to Megara,[1] which was, according to legend, the result of Poseidon changing the body of Alope into a spring bearing her name.[2][3] Adjacent to the spring, there was a monument of Alope on the spot where she was believed to have been killed by her father, Cercyon.[4]

References[]

  1. ^ : Alope 4.(in German) In: Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft (RE). Volume I,2, Stuttgart 1894, col. 1595.
  2. ^ Pausanias. Description of Greece. 1.5.2.
  3. ^ Aristophanes, Birds 533
  4. ^ Pausanias. Description of Greece. 1.39.3.


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