InGreek mythology, Argyra (/ˈɑːrdʒɪrə/; Ancient Greek: Ἀργυρᾶ) was one of the Naiads, a nymph who lived in a well. There was a city in ancient Achaea, also named Argyra, that was the site of a spring.
According to legend, the nymph Argyra was in love with a shepherd named Selemnus whom she visited frequently.[1] But when he aged and his youthful beauty vanished, she forsook him. When the boy died of grief, the goddess Aphrodite out of pity changed him into a river. There was a popular belief in Achaia that a forsaken lover who bathes in this river will forget their pain.[2]
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