Kebren

Kebren ( Greek  Κεβρήν ) is a river god in Greek mythology whose river was at the gates of Troy .

After Parthenios and Strabo, he is Oinone's father . In the Bibliotheke of Apollodorus , he is also the father of Asterope , the mistress of Aesacus that in Ovid Hesperia and Tzetzes Merope is called.

literature

• Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll : Kebren . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 2.1, Leipzig 1894, Col. 1011 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

• Kebren in the Theoi Project (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Parthenios 4.
2. ↑ Strabon 13, 596.
3. ↑ Libraries of Apollodorus 3, 12, 6.
4. ^ Ovid , Metamorphoses 11, 769.
5. ^ Tzetzes , Scholien zu Lykophrons Alexandra 224.