Anchiroe (wife of Penthilus)
Anchiroë ( Greek Ἀγχιρόη ) is a figure in Greek mythology .
According to Hellanikos of Lesvos , Anchiroë was the wife of Neleiden Penthilus and from him the mother of Andropompos , while Pausanias names Boros as the son of Penthilus and was the father of Andropompos.
As the mother of Andropompos, she is the grandmother of Melanthos , the founder of the mythical royal dynasty of the Melanthids in Athens , who ended the long rule of the Kecropids there.
literature
- Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher: Anchiroë 2 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,1, Leipzig 1886, column 337 ( digitized version ).
- Konrad Wernicke : Anchiroë 6 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 2, Stuttgart 1894, Col. 2106.