Greek mythology A major branch of classical mythology, Greek mythology is the body of myths originally told by the ancient Greeks, and a genre of Ancient Greek folklore. These stories concern the origin and nature of the world, the lives and activities of ...

, Bolina (;

Ancient Greek Ancient Greek includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC. It is often roughly divided into the following periods: Mycenaean Greek (), Dark Ages (), the Archaic p ...

: Βολίνα) or Boline (Βολίνη) was a

nymph A nymph ( grc, νύμφη, nýmphē, el, script=Latn, nímfi, label=Modern Greek; , ) in ancient Greek folklore is a minor female nature deity. Different from Greek goddesses, nymphs are generally regarded as personifications of nature, are ty ...

. According to Pausanias, Bolina was once a mortal maiden of

Achaea Achaea () or Achaia (), sometimes transliterated from Greek as Akhaia (, ''Akhaïa'' ), is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the region of Western Greece and is situated in the northwestern part of the Peloponnese peninsula. T ...

. She was loved by the god

Apollo Apollo, grc, Ἀπόλλωνος, Apóllōnos, label=genitive , ; , grc-dor, Ἀπέλλων, Apéllōn, ; grc, Ἀπείλων, Apeílōn, label=Arcadocypriot Greek, ; grc-aeo, Ἄπλουν, Áploun, la, Apollō, la, Apollinis, label= ...

, and when he attempted to approach her, Bolina fled from him and threw herself into the sea to escape his advances. Thereupon the god made her immortal. On the spot where Bolina fell into the sea, the town Bolina was founded. Pausanias ''Description of Greece'' 7.23.4

Bibliography

*Alexios Panagopoulou, ''Istoriko lexiko periochis dimou Riou nomou Achaias'' (''Ιστορικό λεξικό περιοχής δήμου Ρίου νομού Αχαίας'' = ''Historic Dictionary of the Municipality of Rio, Achaia'', Peri Technon, Patras 2003, *Athanasios Angelopoulou ''New Greek Mythology Dictionary'', Eletheris

References

{{reflist Mythology of Achaea Nymphs Deeds of Apollo