Krimisos

Krimisos is a river that fathers a city. His stream ran through the territory of Egesta in the Elymian west of Sicily, and the foundation tradition of that city made him the father of its founder-hero by the nymph Segesta — the pattern by which Greek and Sicilian communities alike traced themselves to the water they drank. He is recorded under the Sicel tradition key, which this registry uses for the indigenous Sicilian figures known through Greco-Roman report; the Elymian west had its own identity, and a future Elymian tradition should coordinate with this record rather than duplicate it.

Domains

• rivers

Relations

• lover: SegestaFather, by the nymph Segesta, of the founder-hero of Egesta in the western Sicilian foundation tradition.Reference treatment of the Egestan foundation tradition, in which the river-god Krimisos fathers the city's founder on the nymph Segesta. (secondary)

Sources

• Krimisos is the god of the river of that name in north-western Sicily, near Egesta, and in the Egestan foundation tradition the father of the city's founder-hero by the nymph Segesta.: Reference treatment of Krimisos (Crimisus), Sicilian river-god, and of the personified rivers of Sicily. (secondary)