Alope (spring)

Alope (Ancient Greek: Ἀλόπη, romanized: Alópē) was a famed spring on the road from Eleusis to Megara,[1] which was, according to legend, the result of Poseidon changing the body of Alope into a spring bearing her name.[2][3] Adjacent to the spring, there was a monument of Alope on the spot where she was believed to have been killed by her father, Cercyon.[4]

References

Johannes Toepffer: Alope 4.(in German) In: Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft (RE). Vol. I,2, Stuttgart 1894, col. 1595.
Pausanias (1918). "5.2". Description of Greece. Vol. 1. Translated by W. H. S. Jones; H. A. Ormerod. Cambridge, Massachusetts; London: Harvard University Press; William Heinemann – via Perseus Digital Library.
Aristophanes, Birds 533
Pausanias (1918). "39.3". Description of Greece. Vol. 1. Translated by W. H. S. Jones; H. A. Ormerod. Cambridge, Massachusetts; London: Harvard University Press; William Heinemann – via Perseus Digital Library.

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[1] Johannes Toepffer: Alope 4.(in German) In: Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft (RE). Vol. I,2, Stuttgart 1894, col. 1595.

[2] Pausanias (1918). "5.2". Description of Greece. Vol. 1. Translated by W. H. S. Jones; H. A. Ormerod. Cambridge, Massachusetts; London: Harvard University Press; William Heinemann – via Perseus Digital Library.

[3] Aristophanes, Birds 533

[4] Pausanias (1918). "39.3". Description of Greece. Vol. 1. Translated by W. H. S. Jones; H. A. Ormerod. Cambridge, Massachusetts; London: Harvard University Press; William Heinemann – via Perseus Digital Library.