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Asopus (/ ə ˈ s oʊ p ə s /; Ancient Greek: Ἀ̄σωπός Āsōpos) is the name of four different rivers in Greece and one in Turkey.In Greek mythology, it was also the name of the gods of those rivers.
In Greek mythology, Sisyphus or Sisyphos (/ ˈ s ɪ s ɪ f ə s /; Ancient Greek: Σίσυφος Sísyphos) was the founder and king of Ephyra (now known as Corinth). He reveals Zeus's abduction of Aegina to the river god Asopus, thereby incurring Zeus's wrath.
Asopis (Ancient Greek: Ἀσωπίς or Ἀσωπίδος) was the name of two women in Greek mythology.. Asopis, one of the naiad daughters of the river-god Asopus and Metope, the nymph daughter of the river Ladon.
In Greek mythology, Antiope (/ æ n ˈ t aɪ ə p i /; Ancient Greek: Ἀντιόπη derived from αντι anti "against, compared to, like" and οψ ops "voice" or means "confronting" [1]) was the daughter of the Boeotian river god Asopus, according to Homer; [2] in later sources [3] she is called the daughter of the "nocturnal" king Nycteus ...
In Greek mythology, Sinope (/ s ɪ ˈ n oʊ p i /; Ancient Greek: Σινώπη [1]) was one of the daughters of Asopus and thought to be an eponym of the city Sinope on the Black Sea. Family [ edit ]
Asopus River in Sicyonia and Boeotia • Aegina: Island of Aegina: mother of Menoetius by Actor, and Aeacus by Zeus • Asopis • Chalcis: Chalcis, Euboea: regarded as the mother of the Curetes and Corybantes; perhaps the same as Combe and Euboea • Cleone: Cleonae, Argos one of the daughters of Asopus • Combe: Island of Euboea
Aegina (/ i ˈ dʒ aɪ n ə /; Ancient Greek: Αἴγινα) was a figure of Greek mythology, the nymph of the island that bears her name, Aegina, lying in the Saronic Gulf between Attica and the Peloponnesos. The archaic Temple of Aphaea, the "Invisible Goddess", on the island was later subsumed by the cult of Athena.
In Greek mythology, Thespia (Ancient Greek: Θέσπια) was the daughter of the river god Asopus and Metope, daughter of Ladon, himself a river god. She was abducted to Thespiae (the city west of Thebes) by Apollo, and the city might have been named after her. [1] [2]