Hercyna
Role: maiden associated with the river Hercyna · First appears: Book 9 · Chapter 39
Life events
- Proserpine retrieved Hercyna’s goose from beneath a stone, causing the river Hercyna to spring forth.(Book 9 · Chapter 39 · 📍 The grove of Trophonius)
- With: Proserpine
- “and water they say burst forth where Proserpine took up the stone, and the river was called for that reason Hercyna.”
Book 9 · Chapter 39
- friends with Proserpine “They say that Hercyna was playing there with Proserpine the daughter of Demeter, and unwittingly let a goose drop out of her hands”
- with Proserpine (They were playing together.) “They say that Hercyna was playing there with Proserpine the daughter of Demeter, and unwittingly let a goose drop out of her hands, which flew into a hollow cave and hid under a stone, till Proserpine entered the cave and took it from under the stone:”
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.