Fountain-nymph who lay with Bucolion, illegitimate eldest son of Laomedon, while he shepherded his flocks and bare twin sons Aesepus and Pedasus, stripped of their harness by Euryalus.1
Homer names Abarbarea only through her sons: Euryalus slew Dresus and Opheltius, then went on after Aesepus and Pedasus, whom on a time the fountain-nymph Abarbarea bare to peerless Bucolion when he lay with her in love amid the flocks.2
The same passage sets Bucolion himself as son of lordly Laomedon, eldest born though the mother that bare him was unwed — then turns to Abarbarea as the nymph he lay with while shepherding. Apollodorus instead names a nymph Calybe as Bucolion's mother in the king's prose genealogy, leaving two fountain-nymph traditions in the Laomedon stemma.3⚖
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