Anchiale (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Anchiale or Ankhiale (Greek Ἀγχιάλη) was the name of the following personages:

Anchiale, according to Stephanus of Byzantium, was said to have founded the town of Anchiale near Tarsus in Cilicia. Her father was named Iapetus, and she had a son named Cydnus.^[1]
Anchiale, according to Apollonius of Rhodes, was a Cretan nymph, who gave birth to the Idaean Dactyls in the Dictaean cave.^[2]
Anchiale, according to Servius, was the mother of Oaxes by Apollo.^[3]

Notes

↑ Smith, Anchiale.
↑ Smith, Anchiale; Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica 1.1130.
↑ Smith, "Oaxes"; Servius, Commentary on the Eclogues of Vergil 1.65.

References

Apollonius of Rhodes, Apollonius Rhodius: the Argonautica, translated by Robert Cooper Seaton, W. Heinemann, 1912. Internet Archive.
Smith, William; Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London (1873).

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