• those rivers. Zeus carried off Aegina, Asopus' daughter, and Sisyphus, who had witnessed the act, told Asopus that he could reveal the identity of the...
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  • says that at the foot of the acropolis of Asopus were the ruins of the city of the Achaei Paracyparissii. Asopus was a town of the Eleuthero-Laconians. Its...
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    river Asopus. Pausanias then comments oddly that he thinks that this eponymous Plataea was daughter of King Asopus rather than of the river Asopus. Oroe...
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    Aegina (mythology) (category Children of Asopus)
    away to a nearby island, informed Asopus. Though Asopus pursued them, Zeus threw down his thunderbolts sending Asopus back to his own waters. Aegina eventually...
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  • Asopus Vallis is a valley in the Memnonia quadrangle on Mars, located at 4.4° south latitude and 149.7° west longitude. It is 33 km long and was named...
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    say was the gift of Asopus to Sisyphus. The latter knew, so runs the legend, that Zeus had ravished Aegina, the daughter of Asopus, but refused to give...
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    an island, which was later named after Aegina, daughter of the river god Asopus. Oenone was a mountain nymph (an oread) on Mount Ida in Phrygia, a mountain...
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    papyrus tells of the daughters of the river-god Asopus. It mostly consists of a prophet, Acraephen, telling Asopus how his daughters were abducted by the gods...
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    Attica at the foot of Mt. Cithaeron, between the mountain and the river Asopus, which divided its territory from that of Thebes. Its inhabitants was known...
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    370; Apollodorus, 1.3.1 Apollodorus, 3.12.6; Grimal, s.v. Asopus, p. 63; Smith, s.v. Asopus. FGrHist 1753 F1b. Smith, s.v. Agdistis; Pausanias, 7.17.10...
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    colonists from Phthiotis, the seat of the Myrmidons, and from Phlius on the Asopus. While he reigned in Aegina, Aeacus was renowned in all Greece for his justice...
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  • Zeus, and Aegina; he goes to monetize the information with the father, the Asopus River. In exchange for his revelation, he received a fountain for his citadel...
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    cavalry. Mardonius created a fortified encampment on the north bank of the Asopus river in Boeotia covering the ground from Erythrae past Hysiae and up to...
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    Protomedeia Psamathe Sao Spio Thalia Thetis Potamoi Achelous Almo Alpheus Anapus Asopus Asterion Axius Caanthus Cebren Cephissus Clitumnus Enipeus Kladeos Meander...
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    revealing the whereabouts of the Asopid Aegina to her father, the river god Asopus, in return for causing a spring to flow on the Corinthian acropolis. Zeus...
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  • the army of the Seven against Thebes, who was killed by Hypseus, son of Asopus. Argus, son of Abas and one of the defenders of Thebes in the war of the...
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    Pirene (nymph) (category Children of Asopus)
    means "of the osiers"), a nymph, was either the daughter of the river god Asopus, Laconian king Oebalus, or the river god Achelous, depending on different...
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  • Midlands of England Sinope (mythology), in Greek mythology, daughter of Asopus Sinope (moon), a moon of the planet Jupiter Sinope (moth), a moth genus...
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  • Harpina (category Children of Asopus)
    Phliasians, of the daughters of Asopus, which included Nemea, Zeus seizing Aegina, Harpina, Corcyra, Thebe and Asopus. The sculpture was located in the...
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  • Poseidon who became the mother of Asopus, according to Acusilaus. She may be the same with Celusa, possible mother of Asopus by the same god. Pero, the beautiful...
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    Peneus by the naiad Creusa, daughter of Gaia, or by Philyra, a daughter of Asopus. By the naiad Chlidanope he had four daughters: Cyrene, Themisto, Alcaea...
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    Sinope (mythology) (category Children of Asopus)
    Sinope (/sɪˈnoʊpi/; Ancient Greek: Σινώπη) was one of the daughters of Asopus and thought to be an eponym of the city Sinope on the Black Sea. Sinope's...
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  • of the exact parentage of these children of Asopus is very vague. Metope, a daughter of the above Asopus in some accounts. Metope, consort of the river...
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    of Iasus, who himself was the son of Argus and Ismene, the daughter of Asopus, or of Triopas and Sosis; Io's mother in the latter case was Leucane. Io...
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  • (Ποταμοί), river gods Achelous (Αχέλους) Acis (Άκις) Alpheus (Αλφειός) Asopus (Ασωπός) Cladeus (Κλάδεος) Eurotas (Ευρώτας) Nilus (Νείλος) Peneus (Πηνειός)...
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  • Σύρων) may refer to a person or an animal: Syrus, son of Sinope (daughter of Asopus and Metope) and Apollo; the Syrians are named after him. In one account...
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  • Greek: Τανάγρα or Τάναγραν) was the daughter of Aeolus or the river-god Asopus and Metope, daughter of Ladon. In the latter case, she was considered a...
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    niece, and reporting one of Zeus' sexual conquests by telling the river god Asopus of the whereabouts of his daughter Aegina (who had been taken away by Zeus)...
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    and according to Cercops he was a son of Argus and Ismene, daughter of Asopus. Acusilaus says that he was earth-born (authochthon), born from Gaia. Probably...
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    moonlit nights". Cook, p. 456; Smith, s.v. Selene; Pausanias, 2.15.3 has Asopus as the father of Nemea, with no mention of a mother. Pausanias, 5.1.4; Mayerson...
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