Peneios (mythology)

Peneios ( ancient Greek Πηνειός , Latin Peneius or Peneus ) is in Greek mythology the river god of the river of the same name in Thessaly , which is now called Pinios .

Peneios is the son of Oceanus and Tethys . With the naiad Krëusa he had the children Hypseus and Stilbe (daughter of Peneios), some of them are also called Andreus , Iphis , Menippe , Larissa and Cyrene as his children. The latter is also known as the granddaughter of Peneios. After Ovid he is also the father of Daphne . Peneius and his descendants played a major role in the geography of Thessaly. His son Atrax is said to have founded the town of the same name, Atrax , and Trikke ( Trikala ) is said to be named after a daughter of the river god.

The name is derived from the word πηνίον peníon , a decorative weft thread in weaving, as the river runs like a beautiful thread through the landscape, or from the word φηνός phenós "shining".

literature

• Reinhold von Lichtenberg : Peneios . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 3.2, Leipzig 1909, Sp. 1898-1900 ( digitized version ).

Web links

• Peneios in the Theoi Project (English)
• Peneios in Greek Myth Index (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Hesiod : Theogony 337.
2. ^ Diodorus 4:69.
3. ↑ Pindar : Pythias 9, 13.
4. ↑ Pausanias : Description of Greece 9, 34, 6.
5. ↑ Scholion zu Plato , Symposium 208.
6. ↑ Hellanikos of Lesbos in Dionysius of Halicarnassus 1, 28, 3.
7. ↑ Scholien zu Apollonios von Rhodes 2, 502.
8. ^ Hyginus Mythographus : Fabulae 161.
9. ^ Virgil : Georgica 4, 355.
10. ↑ Diodorus 4, 81.
11. ^ Ovid : Metamorphoses 1, 452.
12. ^ Stephanos von Byzanz sv Atrax and Trikke .
13. ^ Reinhold von Lichtenberg: Peneios . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 3.2, Leipzig 1909, Sp. 1898-1900 ( digitized version ).