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Myrrha

Μύρρα

(Μύρρα), a daughter of Cinyras and mother of Adonis. (Luc. D. Syr. 6; comp. ADONIS.) Lycophron (829) calls Byblos in Phoenicia Μύρρας ἄστυ.

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.