Pyrene (mythology) (original) (raw)

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In Greek mythology, Pyrene (Ancient Greek: Πυρήνη, romanized: Purḗnē) may refer to:

• Pyrene, daughter of King Bebrycius and a lover (or victim, depending on the myth) of Heracles. She bore a serpent and became so terrified that she fled to the woods where she died. Heracles created a tomb for her by piling up rocks thus forming the mountain range of the Pyrenees, named after her.[1][2][3]
• Pyrene, also called Pelopia, mother of Cycnus with Ares.[4]

1. ^ Silius Italicus, Punica 3.415–446
2. ^ Bell's New Pantheon Or Historical Dictionary of the Gods, Demi Gods, page 203 [1]
3. ^ (Anonymous) A classical manual, being a mythological, historical, and geographical commentary on Pope's Homer and Dryden's Aeneid of Virgil. London, J. Murray, 1833. p. [2]
4. ^ Apollodorus, 2.5.11

• Apollodorus, The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. ISBN 0-674-99135-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.