Ἡρώ - Stephanos Ethnika

Ἡρώ OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

city

Entry #24
Greek source: meineke
Meineke: 304.11 | Billerbeck: Η24
OCR: gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-10
Word count: 32
Sources: Στράβων (Strabo) 2,1,33 [C 85,30]
Entities: Ἡρώ (Herō / Herô (place name)) [place], Αἰγυπτία (Aigyptia (city name)) [place], Αἷμος (Haemus (mountain)) [place], Τυφῶν (Typhon) [deity], Ἡρωοπολίτης (Heroopolitan (citizen of Heropolis)) [people], Ἡρωῖος (Hērōios / Heroios) [person], Κῶος (Koan (of Kos)) [people]
Etymologies: Folk Etymology Narrative: It was called Haîmos because Typhon was struck there by a thunderbolt and blood flowed.; Morphological Composition: Strabo calls it 'the city of the heroes'.; Morphological Composition: The citizen of this (city) is called Herōopolitēs.; Unclear Metalinguistic: And the demonym of the first is 'Hēroios', like 'Koios'.
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Ἡρώ, πόλις Αἰγυπτία, ἣ Αἷμος ἐκλήθη διὰ τὸ τὸν Τυφῶνα ἐνταῦθα κεραυνῷ βληθῆναι καὶ αἷμα ῥυῆναι. Στράβων δὲ Ἡρώων πόλιν αὐτὴν καλεῖ. ὁ πολίτης ταύτης Ἡρωοπολίτης, τῆς δὲ πρώτης Ἡρῷος ὡς Κῷος.

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Herodian 1.347

char LCS 29 (19.0%) · word LCS 6 (18.8%)

Stephanos

Ἡρώ, πόλις Αἰγυπτία, ἣ Αἷμος ἐκλήθη διὰ τὸ τὸν Τυφῶνα ἐνταῦθα κεραυνῷ βληθῆναι καὶ αἷμα ῥυῆναι. Στράβων δὲ Ἡρώων πόλιν αὐτὴν καλεῖ. ὁ πολίτης ταύτης Ἡρωοπολίτης, τῆς δὲ πρώτης Ἡρῷος ὡς Κῷος.

Herodian

… ἐκαλεῖτο δὲ καὶ Βοῦτος. Δωδώ· οὕτως ἐλέγετο Δωδώνη Σιμμίας ὁ Ῥόδιος »Ζηνὸς ἕδος Κρονίδαο μάκαιρ´ ὑπεδέξατο Δωδώ«. Ἐλβώ νῆσος. Ἡρόδοτος δευτέρᾳ (c. 140). Ἀμαζώ θυγάτηρ τῆς Ἐφέσου, ἀφ´ ἧς αἱ Ἀμαζόνες. Ἡρώ πόλις Αἰγυπτία. Στράβων δὲ Ἡρώων πόλιν αὐτὴν καλεῖ. Θριώ· οὕτως λέγεται Θρῖα δῆμος τῆς Οἰνηΐδος φυλῆς, ὅθεν Θριῶθεν Θριῶζε. Ἰώ ἤτοι σελήνη·