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Alope (spring)

Alope was a famed spring on the road from Eleusis to Megara, which was, according to legend, the result of Poseidon changing the body of Alope into a spring bearing her name. Adjacent to the spring, there was a monument of Alope on the spot where she was believed to have been killed by her father, Cercyon.

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Alope (Ancient Greek: Ἀλόπη, romanized: Alópē) was a famed spring on the road from Eleusis to Megara,1 which was, according to legend, the result of Poseidon changing the body of Alope into a spring bearing her name.23 Adjacent to the spring, there was a monument of Alope on the spot where she was believed to have been killed by her father, Cercyon.4

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  1. Johannes Toepffer: "Alope 4" (in German). In: Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft (RE). Vol. I,2, Stuttgart, 1894, col. 1595.
  2. Pausanias (1918). "5.2". Description of Greece. Vol. 1. Translated by W. H. S. Jones; H. A. Ormerod. Cambridge, Massachusetts; London: Harvard University Press; William Heinemann – via Perseus Digital Library.
  3. Aristophanes, Birds 533
  4. Pausanias (1918). "39.3". Description of Greece. Vol. 1. Translated by W. H. S. Jones; H. A. Ormerod. Cambridge, Massachusetts; London: Harvard University Press; William Heinemann – via Perseus Digital Library.