Aigeiros

Aigeiros ( Greek  Αἴγειρος ) is a figure in Greek mythology .

According to Pherenikos , a Greek epic of an indefinite, perhaps Hellenistic period, she was a hamadryad , one of those nymphs who live in trees and are closely connected with the fate of the tree. In the genealogy of the Hamadryads handed down by Pherenikos at Athenaios , she is a daughter of Oxylos , the son of Oreios , and his sister Hamadryas . Her sisters, whose names were passed down by Athenaios, were Karya , Kraneia , Orea , Balanos , Ptelea , Ampelos and Syke . According to Pherenikos, she had other sisters. Each of these daughters was the inspiration for the Greek name of a tree species, Aigeiros for the black poplar , Ptelea for the elm and Balanos for the oak .

source

• Pherenikos in Athenaios, Deipnosophistai 3, 78 B

literature

• Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher: Aigeiros . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,1, Leipzig 1886, column 143 ( digitized version ).
• Johannes Toepffer : Aigeiros 3 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 1, Stuttgart 1893, Col. 951.