Atrax (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Atrax /ˈtræks/ (Ancient Greek: Ἄτραξ) was believed to have been the founder and eponym of Atrax or Atracia, a city in ancient Thessaly.[1]

Family

Atrax was the son of the river god Peneus and Bura. He had three daughters: Hippodamia, wife of Pirithous;[2] Caenis, who transformed into a male, Caeneus;[3] and Damasippe, who was married to Cassandrus of Thrace.

Mythology

Damasippe fell in love with her stepson Hebrus (Cassandrus' son by his first wife Crotonice); as he rejected all her advances, she took revenge on him by falsely accusing him of seducing her; Cassandrus believed the accusations and tried to kill Hebrus, who threw himself into the river Rhombus, which was subsequently renamed Hebrus.[4]

Notes

  1. Stephanus of Byzantium, s. v. Atrax
  2. Ovid, Heroides 17.248
  3. Antoninus Liberalis, Metamorphoses 17.
  4. Pseudo-Plutarch, On Rivers, 3. 1

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