Sangarius (mythology)

Sangarius (/sæŋˈɡɛriəs/; Ancient Greek: Σαγγάριος) is a Phrygian river-god of Greek mythology.^[1]

Mythology

He is described as the son of the Titans Oceanus and his sister-wife Tethys^[2] and as the husband of Metope, by whom he became the father of Hecuba.^[3] In some accounts, the mother was called the naiad Evagora.^[4] Alternatively, Sangarius had a daughter Eunoë who became the mother of Hecabe by King Dymas.^[5] He was also the father of Nana and therefore the grandfather of Attis.^[6] By Cybele, Sangarius became the father of Nicaea, mother of Telete by Dionysus.^[7] His other children were Sagaritis^[8] and Ocyrrhoe.^[9]

The Sangarius river in Phrygia (now Sakarya in Asian Turkey) itself is said to have derived its name from one Sangas, who had offended Rhea and was punished by her by being changed into water.^[10]

See also

• Peneus
• Alpheus (deity)
• Agdistis

Notes

1. Schmitz, Leonhard (1867). "Sangarius". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 3. Boston. p. 706.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
2. Hesiod, Theogony 344 & 366–370
3. Apollodorus, 3.12.5
4. Scholia ad Euripides, Hecuba 3 from Pherecydes, fr. 136 (Fowler 2013, p. 42)
5. Scholia ad Homer, Iliad 16.718 with Pherecydes as the authority
6. Turner, Patricia; Coulter, Charles Russell (2001). "Sangarius". Dictionary of Ancient Deities. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 412. ISBN 0-19-514504-6. OCLC 45466269. Retrieved 27 April 2009.
7. Nonnus, 15.16 & 48.865
8. Ovid, Fasti 4.222
9. Quintus Smyrnaeus, 11.37
10. Scholia ad Apollonius of Rhodes, 2.722; Etymologicum Magnum s.v. Σαγγάριος

References

• Apollodorus, The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. ISBN 0-674-99135-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
• Hesiod, Theogony from The Homeric Hymns and Homerica with an English Translation by Hugh G. Evelyn-White, Cambridge, MA.,Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1914. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
• Nonnus of Panopolis, Dionysiaca translated by William Henry Denham Rouse (1863-1950), from the Loeb Classical Library, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1940. 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. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Publius Ovidius Naso, Fasti translated by James G. Frazer. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
• Publius Ovidius Naso, Fasti. Sir James George Frazer. London; Cambridge, MA. William Heinemann Ltd.; Harvard University Press. 1933. Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Quintus Smyrnaeus, The Fall of Troy translated by Way. A. S. Loeb Classical Library Volume 19. London: William Heinemann, 1913. Online version at theio.com
• Quintus Smyrnaeus, The Fall of Troy. Arthur S. Way. London: William Heinemann; New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1913. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.

External links

• SANGARIUS on the theoi project

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1870). "Sangarius". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.