Ladon (river god)
Ladon ( Greek Λάδων ) is in Greek mythology a river god in Arcadia , connected to the tributary of the Alpheios, known today as Ladonas .
Ladon was one of the innumerable sons and river gods that came from the union of the Ocean with Tethys . He was married to the Stymphalis mentioned only in this connection and the father of the nymphs Daphne and Metope ; the latter in turn married the river god Asopos . The later, at the urging of love Apollon to escape into a laurel tree turned Daphne he is with the Earth have witnessed. He was also considered the father of the nymph Thelpusa , from whom the city of Thelphusa derived its name, and the grandfather of Euandros , the legendary founder of the settlement on the Palatine Hill in Rome .
literature
- Otto Höfer : Ladon 1 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 2.2, Leipzig 1897, Col. 1785 f. ( Digitized version ).