Bianna

In Greek mythology, Bianna (Ancient Greek: Βίαννα, romanized: Bíanna) was a young unmarried woman from Biennus (modern Viannos) in Crete, according to Stephanus of Byzantium. After a famine forced a mass emigration, she was among those who fled to an area of Gaul along the river Rhône. During a dance, a chasm opened up in the earth and engulfed her.^[1]

According to legend, their companions gave her name to a place, Bienna, which later became the capital of the Celtic Allobroges (Vienne in the Dauphiné).

See also

• Mythology portal
• Ancient Greece portal

• Pyrene
• Greeks in pre-Roman Gaul
• Daphne

References

1. Stephanus of Byzantium s.v. Βίαννα

Sources

• Stephanus of Byzantium, Ethnica, edited by August Meineike (1790-1870), published 1849. The Greek text in the public domain. A few entries from this important ancient handbook of place names have been translated by Brady Kiesling. Topos Text.