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Abarbarea


In classical Greek and Roman mythology, Abarbarea (Ἀβαρβαρέα) is the name of two nymphs

Abarbarea, is a naiad nymph of the meadows of the river, Aesepus, her river-god father. She was the wife of Bucolion (the eldest but illegitimate son of the Trojan king Laomedon) and had twin sons by him, Aesepus and Pedasus, who were killed by Euryalus during the Trojan War.

In Homer's Iliad, Book XI: 21 -23, mentioned Abarbarea in the following passage:

"Then Euryalus slew Dresus and Opheltius, and went on after Aesepus and Pedasus, whom on a time the fountain-nymph Abarbarea bare to peerless Bucolion. Now Bucolion was son of lordly Laomedon, his eldest born, though the mother that bare him was unwed; he while shepherding his flocks lay with the nymph in love, and she conceived and bare twin sons."

Abarbarea, also a naiad nymph and one of the three ancestors of the Tyrians, along with Callirrhoe and Drosera. They were joined to sons of the soil (). She often reproached Nicaea for having killed Hymnus.

Other writers do not mention this nymph, but Hesychius mentions "Abarbareai" or "Abarbalaiai" as the name of a class of nymphs.


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