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Template:Greek myth (nymph)In Greek mythology, Anchiroe (Ancient Greek: Αγχιροη Ankhiroê means "pouring flow") may refer to the following figures:

  • Anchiroe, also Anchirhoe (Ἀγχιρόη), an Arcadian nymph who together with other nymphs, Neda, Anthracia, Hagno and Myrtoessa, were nurses of the god Zeus. She was depicted to carry water-pots with what is meant to be water coming down from her.[1]
  • Anchiroe, one of the Erasinides, Argive naiad daughters of the river-god Erasinus. She and her sisters, Byze, Maera and Melite, received Britomartis.[2]
  • Anchiroe, daughter of the river god Chremetes, wife of Psyllus, the man who made war against Notus, and mother by him of Crataigonos, a Libyan who joined Dionysus in his India n campaign.[3]
  • Anchiroe or Achiroe, daughter of Nilus and wife of Belus.[4]
  • Anchiroe, consort of Sithon.[5]

Notes

  1. Pausanias, 8.31.4
  2. Antoninus Liberalis, 40
  3. Nonnus, Dionysiaca 13.380
  4. Apollodorus, 2.1.4
  5. Tzetzes on Lycophron, 583 & 1161

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