Argyra (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Argyra (/ˈɑːrdʒɪrə/; Ancient Greek: Ἀργυρᾶ, romanized: Argurã, lit. 'silvery') was one of the Naiads, a nymph who lived in a well. There was a city in ancient Achaea, also named Argyra, that was the site of a spring.

Mythology

According to legend, the nymph Argyra was in love with a shepherd named Selemnus whom she visited frequently.^[1] But when he aged and his youthful beauty vanished, she forsook him. When the boy died of grief, the goddess Aphrodite out of pity changed him into a river, the Selemnos. There was a popular belief in Achaia that a forsaken lover who bathes in this river will forget their pain.^[2]