Pyrene, daughter of King
Bebrycius and a lover (or victim, depending on the myth) of
Heracles. She bore a serpent and became so terrified that she fled to the woods where she died. Heracles created a tomb for her by piling up rocks thus forming the mountain range of the
Pyrenees, named after her.[1][2][3]
^Bell's New Pantheon Or Historical Dictionary of the Gods, Demi Gods, page 203
[1]
^(Anonymous) A classical manual, being a mythological, historical, and geographical commentary on Pope's Homer and Dryden's Aeneid of Virgil. London, J. Murray, 1833. p.
[2]
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Pyrene, daughter of King
Bebrycius and a lover (or victim, depending on the myth) of
Heracles. She bore a serpent and became so terrified that she fled to the woods where she died. Heracles created a tomb for her by piling up rocks thus forming the mountain range of the
Pyrenees, named after her.[1][2][3]
^Bell's New Pantheon Or Historical Dictionary of the Gods, Demi Gods, page 203
[1]
^(Anonymous) A classical manual, being a mythological, historical, and geographical commentary on Pope's Homer and Dryden's Aeneid of Virgil. London, J. Murray, 1833. p.
[2]
This article includes a list of Greek mythological figures with the same or similar names. If an
internal link for a specific Greek mythology article referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended Greek mythology article, if one exists.