Unchanged by any teller — how the centuries since have seen Sangarius.
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Iliad
Homer
The Phrygian river beside which Priam's allies camp — Sangarius as the great stream of the Troad's hinterland, later named as Hecuba's divine father in genealogical tradition.
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Hecuba
Priam's queen is often made a daughter of Sangarius — the river-god as the mythic father of Troy's most famous mourning mother.
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Bibliotheca
Apollodorus
Apollodorus keeps Sangarius among the Oceanid rivers and in the Trojan stemma — the Phrygian stream that ties Hecuba to the earth's waters.
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Sangarius (mythology)
Phrygian river-god, son of Oceanus and Tethys — the stream that gives its name to the Sakarya and, in many tellings, a father to Hecuba.