Anapos

Anapos was a Sicilian river deity in Greek mythology . The river, known today as Anapo , has its source on Monte Lauro in the Hybleischen Mountains and flows into the port of Syracuse .

According to Ovid, he was connected to the spring nymph Kyane , whose river Ciane flows into the Anapo.

The marshy estuary (Lysimeleia Limne) was unhealthy and easily caused epidemics to break out in armies that besieged the city of Syracuse in ancient times.

According to Diodorus , Dionysius I of Syracuse had high schools built at Anapo.

swell

• Ovid Metamorphoses 5.409ff
• Diodor Library 15.13.5
• Claudius Aelianus Varia historia 2.33
• Nonnos of Panopolis Dionysiaka 6.129 ff

literature

• Karl Tümpel : Anapos 3 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 2, Stuttgart 1894, Col. 2062.
• Konrat Ziegler : Lysimeleia Limne. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume XIV, 1, Stuttgart 1928, column 40.

Web links

• Anapos in the Theoi Project