Balanus

Balanus (Greek Βάλανος) is a figure in Greek mythology.

According to Pherenicus, a Greek epic of an indefinite, perhaps Hellenistic period, she was a hamadryad, one of those nymphs who live in trees and are closely connected with the fate of the tree. In the genealogy of the Hamadryads handed down by Pherenicus at Athenaeus, she is a daughter of Oxylus, the son of Oreius, and his sister Hamadryas. Her sisters, whose names were handed down to Athenaeus, were Carya, Craneia, Aigeirus, Orea, Ptelea, Ampelus and Syke. Balanus is the Greek word for acorn.
References

Pherenikos in Athenaios, Deipnosophistai 3, 78 B

literature

Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll: Balanos. In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Ed.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology. Volume 1,1, Leipzig 1886, column 748 (digitized version).
Konrad Wernicke: Balanos. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classical antiquity science (RE). Volume II, 2, Stuttgart 1896, column 2817 (digitized version).

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