Argyra (mythology)

There was a city in ancient Achaea, also named Argyra, that was the site of a spring.

According to legend, the nymph Argyra was in love with a shepherd named Selemnus whom she visited frequently.

[1] But when he aged and his youthful beauty vanished, she forsook him.

When the boy died of grief, the goddess Aphrodite out of pity changed him into a river, the Selemnos.

There was a popular belief in Achaia that a forsaken lover who bathes in this river will forget their pain.