Eurotas (river god)

River god Eurotas at the Leonidas monument, Thermopylae

Eurotas ( Greek  Εὐρώτας ), the son of the river god Inachos and Peitho , was the river god of the river of the same name in Greek mythology, Eurotas . He was considered the father of the Kleochareia , the Mikionikes , the Pitane and the Tiasa . A statue of the river god, which Pliny the Elder particularly emphasized because of the depiction of flowing water, was made by Eutychides around 300 BC. Created.

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• Pausanias , Travel in Greece , 3, 18, 6.
• Pindar , Olympic Odes , 6, 46.
• Pliny, Naturalis historia , 34, 78.
• Johannes Tzetzes , Chiliades , 2, 43.