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It included Nemea, Zeus seizing Aegina, Harpina, Corcyra, Thebe, and Asopus himself. It seems the Phliasians were insistent that Thebe belonged to their Asopus. According to Pherecydes, Asopus also fathered Philyra who became the mother of Hypseus by Peneus. [20] In some sources, Pronoe who was the mother of Phocus by Poseidon was a daughter of ...
Though the name Aegina betokens a goat-nymph, [1] such as was Cretan Amalthea, she was given a mainland identity as the daughter of the river-god Asopus and the nymph Metope; [2] of their twelve or twenty daughters, many were ravished by Apollo or Zeus. Aegina bore at least two children: Menoetius by Actor, and Aeacus by Zeus, both
In Greek mythology, Ismene (/ ɪ s ˈ m iː n iː /; Ancient Greek: Ἰσμήνη, Ismēnē) was the naiad daughter of the river-god Asopus by the nymph Metope, daughter of the river Ladon. [1] She was the sister of Aegina , [ 2 ] Salamis , [ 3 ] Pelagon ( Pelasgus [ 4 ] ) and Ismenus . [ 5 ]
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In Greek mythology, Aegina was a daughter of the river god Asopus and the nymph Metope. She bore at least two children: Menoetius by Actor, and Aeacus by the god Zeus. When Zeus abducted Aegina, he took her to Oenone, an island close to Attica. Here, Aegina gave birth to Aeacus, who would later become king of Oenone; thenceforth, the island's ...
Aeacus was the son of Zeus by Aegina, a daughter of the river-god Asopus, and thus, brother of Damocrateia. [17] In some accounts, his mother was Europa and thus possible full-brother to Minos, Rhadamanthus and Sarpedon. [18] He was the father of Peleus, Telamon and Phocus and was the grandfather of the Trojan war warriors Achilles and ...
From Nicole Kidman’s erotic thriller “Babygirl,” to a book of sexual fantasies edited by Gillian Anderson, this was the year the female sex drive took the wheel in popular culture.
Antoninus Liberalis wrote that after escaping Minos, she arrived at Aegina, but a local fisherman named Andromedes tried to lay hands on her, so she jumped off her boat, and became known as Aphaea, a local Aeginetan goddess, whose name Antoninus interprets as 'she who disappeared'. In Britomartis's place, a statue appeared in a temple of ...