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In Greek mythology, Nilus (/ ˈnaɪləs /; Ancient Greek: Νεῖλος, romanized: Neilos) is one of the three thousand Potamoi, the river gods, who represent the god of the Nile river itself. Nilus is the son of the water gods Oceanus and Tethys.
- Parentage of The River-Gods
- II. Sons of Zeus
- River-Gods - Fathers of The Naiad-Nymphs
- River-Gods & The Assemblies of The Gods
- Poseidon & Apollo - Lords of The River-Gods
- Princes of The River-Gods
- Myths of Individual River-Gods
- River-Gods Poetic Miscellany
- Rivers & The Magic of Witches
- River-Gods Protectors of The Young
I. SONS OF OCEANUS & TETHYS
Homer, Iliad 21. 190 ff (trans. Lattimore) (Greek epic C8th B.C.) : "Zeus is stronger than the Potamoi (Rivers) that run into the sea, so the generation of Zeus is made stronger than that of a River . . . Not powerful Akheloios (Achelous) matches his strength against Zeus, not the enormous strength of Okeanos (Oceanus) with his deep-running waters, and all springs and all deep wells have their waters of him, yet even Okeanos is afraid of the lightning of great Zeus." Hesiod, Theogony 337 ff (...
The River-Gods, or a selection of them, were sometimes described as sons of Zeus the god of rain. Homer's Epigrams 1 (trans. Evelyn-White) (Greek epic B.C.) : "The divine stream, eddying Hermos, whom deathless Zeus begot." Ptolemy Hephaestion, New History Book 4 (summary from Photius, Myriobiblon 190) (trans. Pearse) (Greek mythographer C1st to C2n...
Aeschylus, Fragment 84 Xantriae (from Scholiast on Aristophanes, Frogs 1344) (trans. Weir Smyth) (Greek tragedy C5th B.C.) : "For the Nymphai Kreniai (Nymphs of the Springs) [Naiades], the glorious goddesses mountain-born . . . the life-giving children of Inakhos (Inachus), the Argive river." Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 4. 1141 ff (trans. Rieu)...
The River-Gods were called to attend the assemblies of the gods on Mount Olympos. Homer, Iliad 20. 4 ff (trans. Lattimore) (Greek epic C8th B.C.) : "But Zeus, from the many-folded peak of Olympos, told Themis to summon all the gods into assembly. She went everywhere, and told them to make their way to Zeus' house. There was no Potamos (River) that ...
Poseidon as the god of water was the king of the river-gods. Apollon and the Rivers were joint protectors of the young (see River-Gods Protectors of the Young below). Homer, Iliad 12. 18 ff (trans. Lattimore) (Greek epic C8th B.C.) : "Poseidon and Apollon took counsel to wreck the wall [left behind by the Greeks at Troy after their departure], lett...
The gods of the largest rivers were the princes of their lesser fellows. In Greece the mighty Akheloios (Achelous) of Aitolia and Peneios (Peneus) of Thessalia (Thessaly) earned this title. Callimachus, Aetia Fragment 9 (trans. Trypanis) (Greek poet C3rd B.C.) : "[Aeetes of Kolkhis (Colchis) speaks :] ‘Let Helios (the Sun) be my witness and Phasis ...
I. RIVER-GODS FIRST KINGS OF THE LAND
River-Gods were sometimes described as the first, aboriginal kings of the land. The most famous of these were Asopos river-king of Sikyonia, Inakhos (Inachus) river-king of Argos, and Eurotas river-king of Lakedaimonia. In the rationalisations of late antiquity, these figures were often redefined as mortal kings who gave their names to rivers rather than the Rivers themselves. Pausanias, Description of Greece 2. 15. 4 (trans. Jones) (Greek travelogue C2nd A.D.) : "The oldest tradition in the...
II. TRANSFORMATION OF MEN INTO RIVERS
River metamorphosis MYTHS include:-- (1) Metamorphosis of SELEMENUS (A shepherd transformed into a river) (2) Metamorphosis of EUENOS (A prince transformed into a river) (3) Metamorphosis of AKIS(A shepherd transformed into a river)
III. LOVES OF THE RIVER-GODS
Some amorous river-god MYTHS include:-- (1) Contest of Heracles & ACHELOUS (Shape-shifting River-God) (2) Love of ACHELOUS & Perimele (A girl transformed into a river-island) (3) Love of ALPHEUS & Arethusa (Chases the Nymph across the sea) (4) Love of Tyro for the ENIPEUS (Girl falls in love with the River) (5) Love of HALYS & Sinope (Nymph avoids River-God) (6) Love of CRIMISUS & Aegesta (Girl seduced in the guise of a dog) (7) Love of ORONTES & Meliboea(River-God floods Syria)
Homer, Iliad 5. 773 ff (trans. Lattimore) (Greek epic C8th B.C.) : "They came to Troy land and the two running rivers where Simoeis and Skamandros (Scamander) dash their waters together, there the goddess of the white arms, Hera, stayed her horses, slipping them from the chariot . . . and Simoeis grew as grass ambrosia for them to graze on." Homer,...
Ovid, Metamorphoses 7. 192 ff (trans. Melville) (Roman epic C1st B.C. to C1st A.D.) : "[The witch] Medea . . . in the deep stillness of the midnight hour . . . To the stars she stretched her arms, and thrice she turned about and thrice bedewed her locks with water, thrice a wailing cry she gave, then kneeling on the stony ground, ‘O Nox (Night) [Ny...
Homer, Iliad 23. 141 ff (trans. Lattimore) (Greek epic C8th B.C.) : "He [Akhilleus (Achilles)] stood apart from the pyre [of Patroklos] and cut off a lock of fair hair which he had grown long to give to the river Sperkheios (Spercheus) , and gazing out over the wide wine-blue water, he spoke forth : ‘Sperkheios, it was in vain that Peleus my father...
- The rivers
- Oceanus and Tethys
- Earth
- Water-pitcher, cornucopia
Aug 30, 2023 · Achelous was the name of both the largest river in Greece—flowing from the Pindus Mountains to the Ionian Sea—and the god of that river. A child of the Titans Oceanus and Tethys, Achelous was an ancient and powerful god.
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Originally in Greek mythology, Achelous was the god of all rivers and water of the world. During Hellenistic times, he was only associated with the Achelous river. This is the largest river in all Greece.
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