Galaxy/The codex of Abarbarea

In classical Greek mythology, Abarbarea (Ancient Greek Ἀβαρβαρέη) is a naiad fountain-nymph who lay with Bucolion, illegitimate eldest son of Laomedon, and bore the Trojan twin warriors Aesepus and Pedasus. Homer names her only through her sons; later writers also know Abarbarea as a naiad ancestor of the Tyrians, and Hesychius records Abarbareai as a class of nymphs.

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I.Mother of the Trojan twins

In Iliad 6, Euryalus strips the harness from Aesepus and Pedasus after slaying Dresus and Opheltius. Homer digresses: the fountain-nymph Abarbarea had borne the twins to peerless Bucolion while he shepherded his flocks — Bucolion himself being Laomedon's eldest son by an unwed mother.

Apollodorus instead names a nymph Calybe as Bucolion's mother in the prose genealogy, leaving two fountain-nymph traditions in the Laomedon stemma.

II.Homonym care

The atlas id abarbarea-trojan is the Iliadic naiad mother of Aesepus and Pedasus. Nonnus' Tyrian Abarbarea and the Hesychian nymph-class are related namesakes, not separate atlas nodes.

AT A GLANCE

Greek nameAbarbareē (Ἀβαρβαρέη)
Typenymph
Domainsfountain-nymph · mother of Aesepus and Pedasus
SymbolsFountain / spring · Twin sons Aesepus and Pedasus
Cult centersTroad springs · Trojan pastureland of Bucolion
EtymologyAncient Greek Ἀβαρβαρέη; Hesychius also attests the plural Αβαρβαρέαι / Αβαρβαλαια for a nymph class.
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