Peirene
place · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
Peirene's sacred fount
in the texts
The Trojan Women
Sacred fountain (at Corinth) imagined by the chorus as a possible place where they might labor as slaves.
it may be as a wretched slave from Peirene’s sacred fount I shall draw their store of water.
Olympian
A spring/site at Corinth named as the location of Bellerophon's ancestral rule and estate.
he boasted to them that in the city of Peirene lay the rule and rich estate and hall of his ancestor, Bellerophon, who once suffered greatly when beside the spring he wanted to harness Pegasus, the son of the snake-entwined Gorgon;