Achiroe

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Argive genealogy in Greek mythology
Inachus son of Oceanus and Tethys Phoroneus and Io children of Inachus and Melia Epaphus son of Io and Zeus Libya daughter of Epaphus and Memphis Belus and Agenor sons of Lybia and Poseidon Aegyptus and Danaus sons of Belus and Achiroe Hypermnestra daughter of Danaus, mother of Abas grandmother of Proetus Cadmus, Phoenix, Cilix and Europa children of Agenor and Telephassa Polydorus, Agave, Autonoë, Ino and Semele children of Cadmus and Harmonia Dionysus son of Semele and Zeus

Achiroe (Ancient Greek: Αχιρόη), or according to Apollodorus Anchinoë,^[1] which is perhaps a mistake for Anchiroë, was in Greek mythology a naiad, a daughter of the river-god Nilus. She was also the wife of Belus, by whom she became the mother of Aegyptus and Danaus, and, according to some accounts, Cepheus, and Phineus.^[2] According to the scholiast on Lycophron,^[3] Ares begot by her a son, Sithon, and according to Hegesippus,^[4] also two daughters, Pallenaea and Rhoeteia, from whom two towns derived their names.^[5]

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• This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology by William Smith (1870).