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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.
Oceanus, Titan god of the Earth-encircling river Okeanos, the font of all the Earth's fresh water. Palaemon, a young sea god who aided sailors in distress. Phorcys, god of the hidden dangers of the deep. Pontus, primeval god of the sea, father of the fish and other sea creatures. Poseidon, Olympian god of the sea and king of the sea gods; also god
Plato describes it as "a stream of fire, which coils round the earth and flows into the depths of Tartarus". [ 2 ] In Orphic literature , in which there are four rivers of the underworld, the Phlegethon is associated with the element of fire, and the direction east.
Lethe, the river of forgetfulness, is one of the five rivers of the Greek underworld; the other four are Acheron (the river of sorrow), Cocytus (the river of lamentation), Phlegethon (the river of fire) and Styx (the river that separates Earth and the Underworld).
In Greek mythology, Nilus (/ ˈ n aɪ l ə s /; Ancient Greek: Νεῖλος, romanized: Neilos) is one of the three thousand river gods, who represent the god of the Nile river itself. Nilus is the son of the water gods Oceanus and Tethys.
Cocytus / k oʊ ˈ s aɪ t ə s / or Kokytos / k oʊ ˈ k aɪ t ə s / (Ancient Greek: Κωκυτός, literally "lamentation") is the river of wailing in the underworld in Greek mythology. [1] Cocytus flows into the river Acheron , on the other side of which lies Hades , the underworld , the mythological abode of the dead.
Just as Oceanus the god was the father of the river gods, Oceanus the river was said to be the source of all other rivers, and in fact all sources of water, both salt and fresh. [80] According to Homer, from Oceanus "all rivers flow and every sea, and all the springs and deep wells". [81]
A small river near Athens was named Eridanos in ancient times, and has been rediscovered with the excavations for construction of the Athens Metro.There were no serious scientific works that would investigate the connection of Eridanus with the Balkan hydronym for the river Drina, although such studies would be necessary, bearing in mind the ...