CLEOMEDE (Kleomede) - Paeonian Naiad Nymph of Greek Mythology (original) (raw)

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Translation

Famed Queen (kleos, mêdos)

KLEOMEDE (Cleomede) was the Naiad-nymph of a spring of fountain of the main town of the Paionians on the River Axios in Paionia (Paeonia) (north of Greece). She was the wife of Paion (Paeon), eponymous king of the region, and the mother of Laophoon, an ally of Troy in the Trojan War.

PARENTS

AXIOS (Alluded to by Quintus Smyrnaeus 6.605)

OFFSPRING

LAOPHOON (by Paion) (Quintus Smyrnaeus 6.605)

CLASSICAL LITERATURE QUOTES

Quintus Smyrnaeus, Fall of Troy 6. 605 ff (trans. Way) (Greek epic C4th A.D.) :
"Meriones [in the Trojan War] leapt upon Laophoon the son of Paion (Paeon) [king of the Paionians], born by [the river] Axios' flood of bright-haired Kleomede (Cleomede)."

SOURCES

GREEK

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