InGreek mythology,Pirene orPeirene (Ancient Greek: Πειρήνη means "of the osiers"^[1]), anymph, was either the daughter of the river godAsopus,^[2]Laconian kingOebalus,^[3] or the river godAchelous,^[4] depending on different sources. ByPoseidon she became the mother ofLecheas andCenchrias.

When her son Cenchrias was unintentionally killed byArtemis, Pirene's grief was so profound that she became nothing but tears and turned into thefountain outside the gates ofCorinth.^[5] The Corinthians had a small sanctuary dedicated to Pirene by the fountain where honey-cakes were offered to her during the dry months of early summer.

The fountain was sacred to theMuses and it was there thatBellerophon foundPegasus (asPolyidus had claimed), drinking, and tamed him.^[6]

• Diodorus Siculus,The Library of History translated byCharles Henry Oldfather. Twelve volumes.Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1989. Vol. 3. Books 4.59–8.Online version at Bill Thayer's Web Site
• Diodorus Siculus,Bibliotheca Historica. Vol 1-2. Immanel Bekker. Ludwig Dindorf. Friedrich Vogel. in aedibus B. G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1888-1890.Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Pausanias,Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918.ISBN 0-674-99328-4.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
• Pausanias,Graeciae Descriptio.3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903.Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Pindar,Odes translated by Diane Arnson Svarlien. 1990.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Pindar,The Odes of Pindar including the Principal Fragments with an Introduction and an English Translation by Sir John Sandys, Litt.D., FBA. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1937.Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.

• Leonhard Schmitz (1867). "PEIRE'NE". In Smith, William (ed.).A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. Making of America Books. Vol. 3. Boston: Little, Brown, and Co. p. 166.

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