Sinope (mythology)

Sinope (mythology)

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Sinope in Greek Mythology was one of the daughters of Asopus and thought to be an eponym of the city Sinope on the Black Sea.

According to Corinna (Frag. 654) and Diodorus Siculus (4.72.2) Sinope was seized by the god Apollo and carried over to the place where later stood the city named after her. Diodorus adds that she bore to Apollo a son named Syrus, supposedly afterwards king of the Syrians, who were named after him.

However the Argonautica (2.944) and Valerius Flaccus (5.109) relate that Sinope was abducted to the site by Zeus who in his passion swore to fulfil her dearest wish. Sinope declared she wished to remain a virgin. Sinope later tricked Apollo and the river Halys in the same fashion and remained a virgin all her life.

"Syrus" is also a boy's name used mainly in America.


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