Greek mythology A major branch of classical mythology, Greek mythology is the body of myths originally told by the Ancient Greece, ancient Greeks, and a genre of Ancient Greek folklore. These stories concern the Cosmogony, origin and Cosmology#Metaphysical co ...

, Hieromneme (; grc, Ἱερομνήμη) was a minor

naiad In Greek mythology, the naiads (; grc-gre, ναϊάδες, naïádes) are a type of female spirit, or nymph, presiding over fountains, wells, springs, streams, brooks and other bodies of fresh water. They are distinct from river gods, who ...

of Asia Minor. Her means 'memory of the holy rites' which came from ''hieros'' and ''mnêma.''

Family

Hieromneme was a daughter of the

river-god A water deity is a deity in mythology associated with water or various bodies of water. Water deities are common in mythology and were usually more important among civilizations in which the sea or ocean, or a great river was more important. Anoth ...

Simoïs, and the wife of

Assaracus In Greek mythology, Assaracus (; Ancient Greek: Ἀσσάρακος ''Assarakos'') was a king of Dardania. Family Assaracus was the second son of Tros, King of Dardania by his wife Callirhoe, daughter of Scamander,Conon, ''Narrations'' 12; Ap ...

, by whom she bore

Capys In Roman mythology, Roman and Greek mythology, Capys (; Ancient Greek: Κάπυς) was a name attributed to three individuals: *Capys of Dardania, Capys, king of Dardania (Troas), Dardania.Virgil, ''Aeneid'2.35/ref> *Capys, the Troy, Trojan who wa ...

Apollodorus Apollodorus (Ancient Greek, Greek: Ἀπολλόδωρος ''Apollodoros'') was a popular name in ancient Greece. It is the masculine gender of a noun compounded from Apollo, the deity, and doron, "gift"; that is, "Gift of Apollo." It may refer to: ...

3.12.2
/ref> Alternately, Hieromneme was the daughter-in-law of Assaracus, wife of Capys and mother of

Anchises Anchises (; grc-gre, Ἀγχίσης, Ankhísēs) was a member of the royal family of Troy in Greek and Roman legend. He was said to have been the son of King Capys of Dardania and Themiste, daughter of Ilus, who was son of Tros. He is most fam ...

Dionysius of Halicarnassus Dionysius of Halicarnassus ( grc, Διονύσιος Ἀλεξάνδρου Ἁλικαρνασσεύς, ; – after 7 BC) was a Greek historian and teacher of rhetoric, who flourished during the reign of Emperor Augustus. His literary sty ...

''Antiquitates Romanae'' 1.62.2
/ref> In some accounts,

Clytodora Clytodora (Ancient Greek: Κλυτοδώρα) is a name in Greek mythology that may refer to: *Clytodora, a Troy, Trojan princess as the daughter of Laomedon, probably either by Placia, Strymo (mythology), Strymo (or Rhoeo), Leucippe or Zeuxippe. C ...

was called the wife of Assaracus while Themiste was regarded as the consort of Capys.

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Naiads

References

, ''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
* Dionysus of Halicarnassus, ''Roman Antiquities.'' English translation by Earnest Cary in the Loeb Classical Library, 7 volumes. Harvard University Press, 1937–1950
Online version at Bill Thayer's Web Site
* Dionysius of Halicarnassus, ''Antiquitatum Romanarum quae supersunt'', ''Vol I-IV''. . Karl Jacoby. In Aedibus B.G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1885
Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library
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