ABARBAREE
Greek Name
Αβαρβαρεη
Transliteration
Abarbareê
Latin Spelling
Abarbarea
Translation
Non-Barbaric? (a- barbaros)
ABARBAREE (Abarbarea) was a Naiad-nymph of the meadows of the Trojan river Aisepos (Aesepus) loved by Prince Boukolion (Bucolion) of Troy.
PARENTS
AISEPOS (implied by Homer Iliad 6.21)
OFFSPRING
AISEPOS, PEDASOS (by Boukolion) (Homer Iliad 6.21)
ENCYCLOPEDIA
ABARBA′REA (Abarbareê), a Naiad, who bore two sons, Aesepus and Pedasus, to Bucolion, the eldest but illegitimate son of the Trojan King Laomedon. (Hom. Il. vi. 22, &c.) Other writers do not mention this nymph, but Hesychius (s. v.) mentions Abarbareai or Abarbalaiai as the name of a class of nymphs.
Source: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.
CLASSICAL LITERATURE QUOTES
Homer, Iliad 6. 21 ff (trans. Lattimore) (Greek epic C8th B.C.) :
"Aisepos (Aesepus) and Pedasos, those whom the Naias (Naiad) Nymphe Abarbaree had born to blameless Boukolion (Bucolion). Boukolion himself was the son of haughty Laomedon . . . While shepherding his flocks he lay with the Nymphe and loved her, and she conceiving bore him twin boys."
SOURCES
GREEK
- Homer, The Iliad - Greek Epic C8th B.C.
OTHER SOURCES
Other references not currently quoted here: Nonnus Dionysiaca 15.378.
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