Unchanged by any teller — how the centuries since have seen Psamathe.
In play
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Psamathe (daughter of Crotopus)
Daughter of Crotopus who bears Linus to Apollo; when the infant is exposed and killed, Apollo's plague avenges him — carefully distinct from Psamathe the Nereid.
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Linus (mythology)
Psamathe's son by Apollo — the exposed infant whose death brings divine vengeance on Argos; one of several Linus figures in Greek song myth.
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Description of Greece
Pausanias
Pausanias preserves the Argive tale of Psamathe, Linus, and Apollo's wrath — the Crotopid house as local etiology of plague and mourning song.
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Apollo
Psamathe's lover and Linus' father — the god who punishes Crotopus' city when the exposed child is torn by dogs.