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- Peneus is a river god and father of the young nymph Daphne. When she first tells him that she doesn't want to ever get married, he's not really that big on her plan. However, he gives into her wish, so he comes across as a pretty easygoing dude. Later on, Daphne begs him to save her from Apollo, and Peneus turns his daughter into a laurel tree.
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According to Hellanicus, Peneus was the father of Iphis, mother of Salmoneus by Aeolus the son of Hellen. [13] Mythology. Eros shot Apollo with one of his arrows, causing him to fall in love with Daphne. It was Eros's plan that Daphne would scorn Apollo because Eros was angry that Apollo had made fun of his archery skills. [14] .
Peneus was a river god in Greek mythology, and one of the three thousand children of the Titans Oceanus and Tethys. He was married to the nymph Creusa, with whom he had a son and three daughters.
In Greek mythology Peneus was a River-God of Thessaly in northern Greece. The Peneus is the main river of the Thessalian plain, flowing down from the Pindar Mountains, to enter the Aegean Sea via the Vale of Tempe, cutting a path between the Mount Olympus and Ossa.
In Greek mythology, Peneus (Πηνειός) was a river god, one of the three-thousand Oceanids, a child of Oceanus and Tethys. The River God Peneus, Daphne who is in the process to be transformed into a laurel tree and Apollo. Mosaic from Paphos, Cyprus.
The story of Daphne and Apollo is told in Ovid's Metamorphoses, Book 1, ll. 452–567. Apollo's first love was Daphne, daughter of the river Peneus. It was not blind chance that caused this, but the wicked anger of Cupid.
Peneus. The god of the Peneus river in Thessaly, a son of Oceanus and Tethys. 1 By the Oceanid Creusa he became the father of Hypseus, Stilbe, and Daphne, 2 who was pursued by Apollo. Cyrene also is called by some his wife, and by others his daughter, and hence Peneus is called the genitor of Aristaeus. 3 Other children include Andreus, Atrax ...
The daughters of Peneus, a river god in Greek mythology, were three beautiful nymphs named Menippe, Daphne, and Stilbe. Peneus was known as the father of the...
