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It commemorates the foundation of a sanctuary to the river god Kephisos by a woman named Xenokrateia. [ 1 ] The relief, currently on display at the National Archaeological Museum in Athens (NAMA 2756), was found in Neo Phaliro in 1908, in the area inside the Long Walls , which in Antiquity connected the harbor of Piraeus with Athens proper ...
Piraeus (/ p aɪ ˈ r iː ə s, p ɪ ˈ r eɪ ə s / py-REE-əs, pirr-AY-əs; Greek: Πειραιάς Peiraiás; Ancient Greek and Katharevousa: Πειραιεύς Peiraieús; Ancient: [peːrai̯eús], Katharevousa: [pire̞ˈefs]) is a port city within the Athens urban area ("Greater Athens"), in the Attica region of Greece. [3]
Peneus, river god of Thessaly flowing from the foot of Pindus. He was the father of Daphne and Stilbe , love interests of the god Apollo. Scamander , who fought on the side of the Trojans during the Trojan War , and was offended when Achilles polluted his waters with a large number of Trojan corpses.
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In Greek mythology, the Pegaeae (/ p ə ˈ dʒ iː iː /; Ancient Greek: Πηγαῖαι) were a type of naiad that lived in springs.They were often considered great aunts of the river gods (), thus establishing a mythological relationship between a river itself and its springs.
In Greek mythology, Peneus (/ p ə ˈ n iː ə s /; Ancient Greek: Πηνειός) was a Thessalian river god, one of the three thousand Rivers , a child of Oceanus and Tethys. [ 1 ] Family
Greek mythology has changed over time to accommodate the evolution of their culture, of which mythology, both overtly and in its unspoken assumptions, is an index of the changes. In Greek mythology's surviving literary forms, as found mostly at the end of the progressive changes, it is inherently political, as Gilbert Cuthbertson (1975) has argued.
The romanized form Oxus reflects the Greek form of the name (Ὸξωι), while in Bactrian the god was known as Vaxš. [a] [4] On a unique coin of the Kushan king Huvishka, the form Oaxšo (OAXϷO) has been identified. [1] Oxus was considered the divine representation of the river he shared his name with, the modern Amu Darya.