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{{Short description|Set of mythological Greek characters}}
{{Greek deities (water)}}

[[File:Ocyrhoë_verteld_haar_vader_Cheiron_het_lot_van_Aesculapius._NL-HlmNHA_1477_53011115.JPG|thumb|''Ocyrhoë verteld haar vader Cheiron het lot van Aesculapius'' (Ocyrhoe tells her father Cheiron the fate of Aesculapius). 19th-century etching of a print by [[Willem van Mieris]], 1694]]
'''Ocyrhoe''' ({{IPAc-en|oʊ|ˈ|s|ɪr|oʊ|iː}}; [[Ancient Greek]]: Ὠκυρόη) or '''Ocyrrhoe''' (Ὠκυρρόη) refers to at least five characters in [[Greek mythology]].

* Ocyrrhoe, one of the 3,000 [[Oceanids]], [[Naiad|water-nymph]] daughters of the [[Titans]] [[Oceanus]] and his sister-spouse [[Tethys (mythology)|Tethys]].<ref>[[Hesiod]], ''[[Theogony]]'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Hes.+Th.+337&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0130:boo=0:chapter=0&highlight=Ocyrrhoe 360]; ''[[Homeric Hymns|Homeric Hymn]] to [[Demeter]]'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=HH+2+398&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0138:boo=0:chapter=0&highlight=Ocyrhoe 420]; [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Paus.+4.30.4&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0160:boo=0:chapter=0&highlight=Ocyrhoe 4.30.4]</ref> She was the mother of [[Phasis (mythology)|Phasis]] by [[Helios]].<ref>[[Pseudo-Plutarch]], ''De fluviis'' 5.1</ref> Ocyrhoe may refer to 'speed and mobility'.<ref>Kerenyi, p. 41.</ref>
*Ocyrhoe, daughter of [[Chiron]] and [[Chariclo]]. She was transformed into a horse because she told her father Chiron his exact fate. Ocyrhoe revealed that he would forsake his immortality to be spared the agonizing pain of a serpent's poison. For this transgression, Ocyrhoe's ability to speak was taken. One might assume that she turned into a horse because her father was a [[centaur]], and because she had long, auburn hair.<ref>[[Ovid]], ''[[Metamorphoses]]'' 2.636–675</ref>
* Ocyrrhoe or '''Ocyone''', a naiad-[[nymph]]. She was the mother, by [[Hippasus (mythology)|Hippasus]], of [[Hippomedon]] (a defender of [[Troy]]), to whom she gave birth on the banks of River [[Sangarius]]. Her son was killed by [[Neoptolemus]].<ref>[[Quintus Smyrnaeus]], 11.37</ref>
* [[Ocyrhoë (Samian nymph)|Ocyrhoë]], the nymph daughter of the [[River gods (Greek mythology)|river god]] [[Imbrasos|Imbrasus]] and [[Chesias (mythology)|Chesias]], a noble maiden. While in [[Miletus]] at a festival in honor of [[Artemis]], she caught Apollo's attention and, fleeing from his advances, asked [[Pompilus (mythology)|Pompilus]], a seafarer and an old friend of her father, to take her home. Pompilus took her on board the ship, but Apollo caught up with them, took the girl and then changed the ship into stone and Pompilus into a fish.<ref>[[Athenaeus]], [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Ath.+7.19&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2013.01.0003:boo=0:chapter=0&highlight=Ocyrhoe 7.283 E] (citing ''The Founding of Naucratis'' by [[Apollonius Rhodius]])</ref>
* Ocyrrhoe, a nymph of [[Mysia]], mother of [[Bakırçay|Caicus]] by [[Hermes]].<ref>Pseudo-Plutarch, ''De fluviis'' [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2008.01.0400%3Achapter%3D21 21.1]</ref>

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== References ==

* [[Athenaeus|Athenaeus of Naucratis]], ''The Deipnosophists or Banquet of the Learned.'' London. Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden. 1854. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:2013.01.0003 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library].
* Athenaeus of Naucratis, ''Deipnosophistae''. Kaibel. In Aedibus B.G. Teubneri. Lipsiae. 1887. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:2013.01.0001 Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library].
* [[Hesiod]], ''Theogony'' from ''The Homeric Hymns and Homerica'' with an English Translation by Hugh G. Evelyn-White, Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1914. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0130%3Acard%3D1 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.] [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0129 Greek text available from the same website].
* ''The Homeric Hymns and Homerica'' with an English Translation by Hugh G. Evelyn-White. Homeric Hymns. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1914. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0138%3Ahymn%3D2 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.] [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0137 Greek text available from the same website].
* [[Károly Kerényi|Kerényi, Carl]], ''The Gods of the Greeks'', Thames and Hudson, London, 1951.
*[[Plutarch|Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus]], ''Morals'' translated from the Greek by several hands. Corrected and revised by. [[William Watson Goodwin|William W. Goodwin]], Ph.D. Boston. Little, Brown, and Company. Cambridge. Press Of John Wilson and son. 1874. 5. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2008.01.0400%3Achapter%3D1 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library].
* [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], ''Description of Greece'' with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. {{ISBN|0-674-99328-4}}. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0160 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library]
* Pausanias, ''Graeciae Descriptio.'' ''3 vols''. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0159 Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library].
* [[Ovid|Publius Ovidius Naso]], ''Metamorphoses'' translated by Brookes More (1859–1942). Boston, Cornhill Publishing Co. 1922. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0028 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.]
* Publius Ovidius Naso, ''Metamorphoses.'' Hugo Magnus. Gotha (Germany). Friedr. Andr. Perthes. 1892. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0029 Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library].
* [[Quintus Smyrnaeus]], ''The Fall of Troy'' translated by Way. A. S. Loeb Classical Library Volume 19. London: William Heinemann, 1913. [https://www.theoi.com/Text/QuintusSmyrnaeus1.html Online version at theio.com]
* Quintus Smyrnaeus, ''The Fall of Troy''. Arthur S. Way. London: William Heinemann; New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1913. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:2008.01.0490 Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library].

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