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Alexirrhoe or Alexiroe (Ancient Greek: Ἀλεξιῥῤόη) is a name in Greek mythology that may refer to following women:

  • Alexirrhoe, a naiad daughter of the river-god Granicus. She secretly bore Aesacus to King Priam of Troy on the 'shady ridges of Mt. Ida' .[1] Otherwise, the mother of Aesacus was called Arisbe, daughter of King Merops of Percote.[2]
  • Alexirrhoe, mother of Carmanor by Dionysus.[3]

Notes

  1. Ovid, Metamorphoses 11.763
  2. Apollodorus, 3.12.5
  3. Pseudo-Plutarch, De fluviis 7.5.

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