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Mount Sipylos
Mount Sipylus

A mountain in Lydia.

  During the Trojan War, Achilles told Trojan King Priam the story of a woman named Niobe who sat on Mount Sipylos where the nymphs[1] rested after dancing beside the Acheloios River.

1. Nymphs—goddesses with symbiotic relationships with aspects of the natural world.

Mount Sipylos

References:
Homer, Iliad book 24, line 615
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