those rivers. Zeus carried off Aegina, Asopus' daughter, and Sisyphus, who had witnessed the act, told Asopus that he could reveal the identity of the...
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Asopos (Boeotia) (redirect from Asopus (Boeotia))
river Asopus. Pausanias then comments oddly that he thinks that this eponymous Plataea was daughter of King Asopus rather than of the river Asopus. Oroe...
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says that at the foot of the acropolis of Asopus were the ruins of the city of the Achaei Paracyparissii. Asopus was a town of the Eleuthero-Laconians. Its...
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Asopus Vallis is a valley in the Memnonia quadrangle on Mars, located at 4.4° south latitude and 149.7° west longitude. It is 33 km long and was named...
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say was the gift of Asopus to Sisyphus. The latter knew, so runs the legend, that Zeus had ravished Aegina, the daughter of Asopus, but refused to give...
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Attica at the foot of Mt. Cithaeron, between the mountain and the river Asopus, which divided its territory from that of Thebes. Its inhabitants were known...
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370; Apollodorus, 1.3.1 Apollodorus, 3.12.6; Grimal, s.v. Asopus, p. 63; Smith, s.v. Asopus. FGrHist 1753 F1b. Smith, s.v. Agdistis; Pausanias, 7.17.10...
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Midlands of England Sinope (mythology), in Greek mythology, daughter of Asopus Sinope (moon), a moon of the planet Jupiter Sinope (moth), a moth genus...
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papyrus tells of the daughters of the river-god Asopus. It mostly consists of a prophet, Acraephen, telling Asopus how his daughters were abducted by the gods...
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Aegina (mythology) (category Children of Asopus)
away to a nearby island, informed Asopus. Though Asopus pursued them, Zeus threw down his thunderbolts sending Asopus back to his own waters. Aegina eventually...
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personified over Mount Celusa or Celossa in Phliasia. She born the river-god Asopus to Poseidon. Otherwise, Celusa might be the same with Pero, the so called...
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Protomedeia Psamathe Sao Spio Thalia Thetis Potamoi Achelous Alpheus Anapus Asopus Asterion Axius Caanthus Cebren Cephissus Clitumnus Enipeus Kladeos Meander...
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an island, which was later named after Aegina, daughter of the river god Asopus. Oenone was a mountain nymph (an oread) on Mount Ida in Phrygia, a mountain...
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colonists from Phthiotis, the seat of the Myrmidons, and from Phlius on the Asopus. While he reigned in Aegina, Aeacus was renowned in all Greece for his justice...
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revealing the whereabouts of the Asopid Aegina to her father, the river god Asopus, in return for causing a spring to flow on the Corinthian acropolis. Zeus...
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Zeus, and Aegina; he goes to monetize the information with the father, the Asopus River. In exchange for his revelation, he received a fountain for his citadel...
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Pirene (nymph) (category Children of Asopus)
means "of the osiers"), a nymph, was either the daughter of the river god Asopus, Laconian king Oebalus, or the river god Achelous, depending on different...
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Sinope (mythology) (category Children of Asopus)
Sinope (/sɪˈnoʊpi/; Ancient Greek: Σινώπη) was one of the daughters of Asopus and thought to be an eponym of the city Sinope on the Black Sea. Sinope's...
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niece, and reporting one of Zeus' sexual conquests by telling the river god Asopus of the whereabouts of his daughter Aegina (who had been taken away by Zeus)...
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Plataea (mythology) (category Children of Asopus)
daughter of the river-god or king of Plataea, Asopus. She is possibly the same with another daughter of Asopus called Oeroe (Ὠερόη), the naiad of a stream...
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himself was the son of Argus and Ismene[broken anchor], the daughter of Asopus, or of Triopas and Sosis; Io's mother in the latter case was Leucane. Io...
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of the exact parentage of these children of Asopus is very vague. Metope, a daughter of the above Asopus in some accounts. Metope, consort of the river...
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Cyparissia. Some authors claimed that Asopus was the later name of Cyparissia, but Strabo speaks of Cyparissia and Asopus as two separate places. Its site...
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the army of the Seven against Thebes, who was killed by Hypseus, son of Asopus. Argus, son of Abas and one of the defenders of Thebes in the war of the...
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Σύρων) may refer to a person or an animal: Syrus, son of Sinope (daughter of Asopus and Metope) and Apollo; the Syrians are named after him. In one account...
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beside it. The image seems then to have been drawn to the bank of the river Asopus and back to the town, attended by a cheering crowd. These adorned xoana...
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Protomedeia Psamathe Sao Spio Thalia Thetis Potamoi Achelous Alpheus Anapus Asopus Asterion Axius Caanthus Cebren Cephissus Clitumnus Enipeus Kladeos Meander...
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(Ποταμοί), river gods Achelous (Αχέλους) Acis (Άκις) Alpheus (Αλφειός) Asopus (Ασωπός) Cladeus (Κλάδεος) Eurotas (Ευρώτας) Nilus (Νείλος) Peneus (Πηνειός)...
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accounts, the latter's mother was Aegina or her parents could be the river-god Asopus and Metope, daughter of another river-deity, Ladon. Scholia on Apollonius...
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Protomedeia Psamathe Sao Spio Thalia Thetis Potamoi Achelous Alpheus Anapus Asopus Asterion Axius Caanthus Cebren Cephissus Clitumnus Enipeus Kladeos Meander...
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