ABSTRACT
Triklaria refers to the three localities known as Aroe, Antheia, and Mesatis which Pausanias says 'The Ionians' held and from which Patrai was formed. The precinct is common to them and expresses their unity. Dionysos also has a role, not dissimilar romance, sited in Kalydon connected by Pausanias with the shrine of Dionysos Kalydonios in Patrai. Now a certain Koresos, priest of Dionysos, loves Kallirhoe but is viciously rejected. Daphne is a daughter of the River Peneios in Ovid. Ovid is a creative author with no immediate access to local tradition; but he does at least draw upon the work of Hellenistic poets, which, usefully for our study, could come close to antiquarianism. Daphne refuses to advance to the condition of womanhood, though she is now at the appropriate age. Daphne and Leukippos individually fall into the category of initiatory myth, but too little information survives to reconstruct a cult story involving them both to the exclusion of Apollo.
