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Published: 2013-09
Total Pages: 32
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 31. Chapters: Acheron, Asopus, Vardar, Vjose, Maritsa, Achelous River, Cephissus, Struma, Haliacmon, List of rivers of Greece, Ilissos, Alfeios, Thyamis, Titarisios, Peristeri, Pineios, Charadros, Eurotas, Nestos River, Elpeus, Loussios, Evinos, Arachthos, Peiros, Mornos, Megdovas, Eridanos, Elissos, Neda, Erymanthos, Gorgopotamos, Meilichos, Selemnos, Fonissa, Agrafiotis, Nedonas, Ladon, Krausidonas, Tyria, Larissos, Krathi, Sarantaporos River, Pamisos, Brychon, Dospat, Erythropotamos, Olvios, Louros, Spercheios, Helicon, Anydro, Volinaios, Tytheus, Bouraikos river, Ieropotamos River, Aroanios, Drino, Kladeos, Plataneiko, Glafkos, Gallikos, Kairatos River, Krios, Tragus, Enipeas, Mavroneri, Granitsiotis, Inachos, Oenus, Zacholitikos, Anavros, Elaea, Pindus, River Pleistos, Amphryssos, Tara. Excerpt: Asopus or Asopos (Greek: ) is the name of five different rivers in Greece and Turkey and also in Greek mythology the name of the gods of those rivers. As mythological figures the Boeotian river Asopus and the Phliasian river Asopus are much confounded. They are duplicated a second time as supposed mortal kings who gave their names to the corresponding rivers. Indeed, logically, since the children fathered by gods on various daughters of either Boeotian or Phliasian Asopus were mortal in these tales, then the daughters themselves must have been mortal, and therefore either the mother of these daughters (often given as Metope daughter of river Ladon) or their father Asopus must have been mortal, or both of them. Apollodorus (3.12.6) informs that the river Asopus was a son of Oceanus and Tethys or according to Acusilaus of Poseidon by Pero (otherwise unknown to us) or according to yet others of Zeus by Eurynome, not making it clear whether he knows there is more than one river named Asopus. Pausanias (9.1.1) cites Plataean tradition...