Myrrha

American  

[meer-uh] / ˈmɪər ə /

noun

1. Classical Mythology. a daughter of King Cinyras of Cyprus who had incestuous relations with her father and was changed into a myrrh tree by the gods. Their child, Adonis, was born from the split trunk of the tree.

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Myrrha

The walls of his home are covered in paintings, including a 17th-century depiction of Adonis and his mother Myrrha by an anonymous Venetian artist.

From New York Times ● May 25, 2023

Stangenberg, an striking and eccentric comédienne, returns later in the evening as Myrrha, an enslaved Greek woman who is Sardanapalus’s lover.

From New York Times ● Apr. 24, 2023

Myrrha Stanford-Smith, who has had her debut novel published at 82.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 1, 2010

The last words of Myrrha on the funereal pyre are in good keeping with the grand conception of her character.

From My Recollections of Lord Byron by Sir Hubert E. H. (Hubert Edward Henry) Jerningham

Pania quits Myrrha, and ranges himself with them.

From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry by Ernest Hartley Coleridge