Segesta
Sicel · numen · pre Greek Sikel Sicani religion (Greco Roman attested) · Recorded classification
Segesta is the city and the nymph at once. In the foundation tradition of Elymian Egesta she bears the founder-hero to the river-god Krimisos, and the town keeps her name — Segesta in Latin, Aigesta or Egesta in Greek. The record is filed under the Sicel key, this registry's key for indigenous Sicilian figures known through Greco-Roman report, with the same caveat as Krimisos: the Elymians were their own people, and a future Elymian tradition should build on these records rather than beside them.
Domains
- city founding
Relations
- lover: KrimisosBore the founder-hero of Egesta to the river-god Krimisos.Reference treatment of the Egestan foundation tradition. (secondary)
Sources
- Segesta is the nymph who bore the founder-hero of the western Sicilian city of Egesta to the river-god Krimisos, and who gave the city her name.: Reference treatment of Segesta and the Egestan foundation tradition. (secondary)