Sinope (mythology)

Sinope (Greek: Σινώπη) was in Greek mythology the daughter of Asopos and Metope and a naiad of extraordinary beauty.

The god father Zeus fell in love with her and chased the shy Sinope through half the world, because she was light-footed and as fast as the god himself. But she too soon ran out of strength and Zeus caught up with her. Blind with love, he promised to grant her every wish. Sinope then said her greatest wish was to remain a virgin forever. And so it happened because the angry Zeus could not withdraw his promise.

At the place where Zeus caught up with the nymph, a city was founded which was named Sinope. Today this city is called Sinop .

literature

• Otto Höfer : Sinope . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 4, Leipzig 1915, Col. 946-948 ( digitized version ).

supporting documents

Apollonios of Rhodes, The Argonaut epic. Edited, translated and explained by Reinhold Glei and Stephanie Natzel-Glei. Volume 1: First and second book (2nd edition; Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2007) 126–127 [Book 2, lines 946–951]; Dionysius of Alexandria, The Song of the World. Bilingual edition by Kai Brodersen (Hildesheim et al .: Olms, 1994) 92-93 [lines 775-779].