Sinope (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Sinope (/sɪˈnoʊpi/; Ancient Greek: Σινώπη[1]) was one of the daughters of Asopus and thought to be an eponym of the city Sinope on the Black Sea.

Sinop in Turkey, Black Sea coast.
Greek deities
series
Nymphs

Family

Sinope's mother was Metope, daughter of the river-god Ladon.[2] In one account, she was called the daughter of Ares and Parnassa[3] or Aegina[4] (usually her sister[5]). In the account of her being the offspring of Ares, Sinope was probably one of the Amazons.[6]

Mythology

According to Corinna[7] and Diodorus Siculus,[8] Sinope was carried away by the god Apollo to the place where later stood the city honouring her name. Diodorus adds that she bore to Apollo a son named Syrus, supposedly afterwards king of the Syrians, who were named after him.[9]

However, the Argonautica[10] and Valerius Flaccus[11] relate that Sinope was abducted to the site by Zeus, who, in his passion, swore to fulfil her dearest wish.[12] Sinope declared she wished to remain a virgin. Sinope later tricked Apollo and the river Halys in the same fashion and remained a virgin all her life.

Notes
  1. Σινώπη, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, on Perseus
  2. Diodorus Siculus, 4.72.1
  3. Scholia on Apollonius, 2.946
  4. Natalis Comes 8.13
  5. Diodorus Siculus, 4.72.1 & 5
  6. Pseudo-Scymnos, Circuit de la terre 940 ff.
  7. Frag. 654
  8. Diodorus Siculus, 4.72.2
  9. Plutarch, Lucullus 23.6
  10. Apollonius, 2.946-951, on Perseus (Greek text)
  11. Valerius Flaccus, 5.109
  12. Cf. also Dionysius Periegeta 775-779 (eponym)

References
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