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Mythology (3)

Founders

Menestheus

Historic figures

Gryne

Gryne, an Amazon, from whom the Gryneian grove in Asia Minor was believed to have derived its name, for it was said that Apollo had there embraced her. (Serv. ad Aen. iv. 345.)

Gods & demigods

Apollo Gryneus

Gryneus, (Gruneios), a surname of Apollo, under which he had a temple, an ancient oracle, and a beautiful grove near the town of Grynion, Gryna, or Grynus in Aeolis in Asia Minor. (Paus. i. 21.9; Serv. ad Virg. Eclog. vi. 72; Athen. iv.; Steph. Byz. s. v. Trunoi.) Under the similar, if not the same name, Truneus, Apollo was worshipped in the Hecatonnesi. (Strab. xiii.) Ovid (Met. xii. 260) mentions a centaur of the name of Gryneus.

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