Balanos (nymph)

Balanos ( Greek  Βάλανος ) 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 handed down to Athenaios, were Karya , Kraneia , Aigeiros , Orea , Ptelea , Ampelos and Syke . Balanos is the Greek word for acorn .

source

• Pherenikos in Athenaios, Deipnosophistai 3, 78 B

literature

• Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll : Balanos . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,1, Leipzig 1886, column 748 ( digitized version ).
• Konrad Wernicke : Balanos. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume II, 2, Stuttgart 1896, column 2817 ( digitized version ).