Asopos (god)
Asopos ( Greek Ἀσωπός ) is a river god in Greek mythology , referring to two different rivers of this name in Boeotia and west of Corinth .
His parents are named after Apollodorus Okeanos and Tethys , Poseidon and Pero or Zeus and Eurynomials .
He had two sons and twelve or twenty daughters with Metope , a daughter of the river god Ladon , including Ismenos , Pelasgos , Kleone , Salamis , Sinope , Peirene , Oenia , Thebe , Kerkyra , Thespia , Chalkis , Nemea and Aigina . He was Aiakos' grandfather .
He asked the headstrong King of Corinth Sisyphus for the name of who had kidnapped Aegina, one of his daughters. In return, he built a water source on the Acrocorinth.
literature
- Adolf Klügmann : Asopos . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,1, Leipzig 1886, column 642 ( digitized version ).
- Richard Wagner : Asopos 8 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume II, 2, Stuttgart 1896, Col. 1706-1708.
Individual evidence
- ^ Libraries of Apollodorus 3, 156