Anapos

Anapos was a Sicilian river deity in Greek mythology. The river known today as Anapo has its source at Monte Lauro in the Hyblean Mountains and flows into the port of Syracuse.

According to Ovid, he was connected to the spring nymph Cyane, whose river Ciane flows into the Anapo. When he opposed the kidnapping of Persephone along with the nymph Cyane, Hades turned them into a river (the river Anapo in southern Sicily) and a fountain, respectively.

The marshy estuary (Lysimeleia Limne) was unhealthy and easily caused epidemics to break out in armies that besieged the city of Syracuse in ancient times.

After Diodorus, Dionysius I of Syracuse had high schools built at Anapo.

References

Ovid Metamorphoses 5.409ff
Diodor Library 15.13.5
Claudius Aelianus Varia historia 2.33
Nonnos of Panopolis Dionysiaka 6.129 ff

literature

Karl Tümpel: Anapos 3. In: Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 2, Stuttgart 1894, Col. 2062.
Konrat Ziegler: Lysimeleia Limne. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classical antiquity science (RE). Volume XIV, 1, Stuttgart 1928, column 40.

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