Abarbarea (naiad)
{{Short description|Naiad nymph of the meadows of the river In Greek mythology}}
{{Other uses|Abarbarea}}{{Greek myth (nymph)}}
In Greek mythology, Abarbarea ({{langx|grc|Ἀβαρβαρέη|lit=unmuddy|translit=Abarbaree}}{{Cite book|last=Kirk|first=G. S.|title=The Iliad: A Commentary: Volume 2, Books 5-8|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=1990|pages=[https://books.google.com/books?id=6r1nI-L8ZEkC&q=kirk+the+iliad 158 ]}}) was a naiad nymph of the meadows of the Aesepus River, her river-god father.{{Cite book|last=Bell|first=Robert E.|title=Women of Classical Mythology: A Biographical Dictionary|publisher=ABC-CLIO|year=1991|isbn=9780874365818|pages=1}}
Family
Abarbarea 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.{{Cite book|last=Rose|first=Carol|title=Spirits, Fairies, Gnomes, and Goblins: An Encyclopedia of the Little People|publisher=ABC-CLIO|year=1996|isbn=9780874368116|pages=[https://books.google.com/books?id=ZxnXAAAAMAAJ&q=carol+rose+abarbarea 351]}}{{Cite book|last=Munn|first=Mark H.|title=The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion|publisher=University of California Press|year=2006|isbn=9780520243491|pages=[https://books.google.com/books?id=8W8lDQAAQBAJ&dq=mother+of+the+gods+abarbarea&pg=PA140 140]}}{{Cite book|last=Bane|first=Theresa|title=Encyclopedia of Fairies in World Folklore and Mythology|publisher=McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers|year=2013|isbn=9780786471119|pages=[https://books.google.com/books?id=nSuXAAAAQBAJ&dq=Encyclopedia+of+Fairies+in+World+Folklore+and+Mythology+abarbarea&pg=PA9 9]}}{{Cite book|last=Kirk|first=Athena|title=Ancient Greek Lists: Catalogue and Inventory Across Genres|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=2021|isbn=9781108841139|pages=[https://books.google.com/books?id=CgIbEAAAQBAJ&dq=kirk+abarbarea&pg=PA63 63]}}{{Cite book|last=Larson|first=Jennifer|title=Greek Nymphs: Myth, Cult, Lore|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2001|isbn=9780198028680|pages=[https://books.google.com/books?id=1ww3m1vSRtsC&dq=abarbaree&pg=PA22 22 & 195 ]}}Homer, Iliad [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Hom.+Il.+6.21&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0134:Book=6&highlight=Abarbarea 6.21–23]
{{Quote|text="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 a 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."|author=Homer|title=Iliad|source=6.21–23}}
Mythology
Before her marriage to Bucolion, Abarbarea often reproached Nicaea for having killed the mortal ox-herder Hymnus.Nonnus, Dionysiaca [https://topostext.org/work/529#15.312 15.378]
: "The Nymph of the mountain was sore offended at manslaying Nicaia, and lamented over the body of Hymnos; in her watery hall the girl of Rhyndacos groaned, carried along barefoot by the water; the Naiads wept, and up in Sipylos, the neighbouring rock of Niobe groaned yet more with tears that flow uncalled; the youngest girl of all, still unacquainted with wedded love, not yet having come to Bucolion's pallet, the Naiad Abarbarea oft reproached the nymph..."Nonnus, Dionysiaca [https://topostext.org/work/529#15.312 15.378] {{PD-notice}}
Notes
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References
- Bell, Robert E., Women of Classical Mythology: A Biographical Dictionary. ABC-Clio. 1991. {{ISBN|9780874365818|0874365813}}.
- Homer, The Iliad with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, Ph.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924. {{ISBN|978-0674995796|}}. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0134 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.]
- Homer, Homeri Opera in five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920. {{ISBN|978-0198145318|}}. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0133 Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library].
- Nonnus of Panopolis, Dionysiaca translated by William Henry Denham Rouse (1863-1950), from the Loeb Classical Library, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1940. [https://topostext.org/work/529 Online version at the Topos Text Project.]
- Nonnus of Panopolis, Dionysiaca. 3 Vols. W.H.D. Rouse. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1940–1942. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:2008.01.0485 Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library].
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