Ἡρώ - Stephanos Ethnika

Ἡρώ OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

city

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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Text Details

Entry	#24
Greek text	meineke
Edition ids	Meineke 304.11 · Billerbeck Η24
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-10
Word count	32

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Στράβων (Strabo)	2,1,33 [C 85,30]

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
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

Category	Explanation
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'.

Links

Place links	Pithom \| 📍 Map \| Pleiades
Page scans	vol2_253.jpg
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Herodian overlaps

Stephanos excerpt (left) is aligned with matched Herodian passages (right). Colors indicate corresponding overlap spans.

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·