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An Oceanid, upon the back of her brother, a Potamos (singular), in the form of a bull.

The Potamoi

The Potamoi are Greek river gods, sons of Oceanus and Tethys. Their sisters are the Oceanids.

Potamoi

Some notable Potamoi are

  • Achelous, the chief of the river gods of Greece
  • Acheron, whose river leads to Hades ' underground realm
  • Alpheus, who pursued the nymph Arethousa, who prayed to Artemis to be turned into a spring, whose waters now mix with Alpheos'
  • Asopus, whose daughters were carried away by the gods (notably Aegina, seduced by Zeus and grandmother of Achilles and Ajax )
  • Axius, who waters the Paeonian plain
  • Borysthenes, who waters the lands of the Scythians, under the nameDniepr
  • Cebren, father of Oenone, the first wife of Paris
  • Chremetes, father of Queen Telephassa of Tyre
  • Cocytus, whose waters feed the lakes of Hades' realm
  • Enipeus, who was loved by Tyro
  • Eridanus, who cooled Phaethon when he fell from Helios ' chariot
  • Euphrates, who waters the Fertile Crescent
  • Eurotas, the first king of Lacadaemon(Sparta)
  • Ganges, who waters the Indian subcontinent
  • Haliacmon, whose riverbed forms the border between Thessaly and Macedon
  • Hydaspes, who stood against Dionysus in his war against the Indians
  • Inachus, who fathered Io and is thus the ancestor of all Greeks
  • Indus, who waters the Indian subcontinent
  • Istros, who waters Europe and Scythia, with the name Danube
  • Lethe, the river of forgetfulness in Hades' realm
  • Maeander, who judges the lawsuits of Asia Minor
  • Pactolus, whose waters bathed King Minos, and relieved him of the golden curse
  • Peneus, the river god of Thessaly and father of Daphne
  • Pyriphlegethon, whose fiery, lava-like waters mix with the river Styx in Hades' kingdom
  • Scamander and
  • Simoeis, rivers in Asia Minor who sided with Troy during the Trojan War and battled Hephaestus
  • Strymon, the Thracian river god and father of King Rhesus
  • Tanais, who is now called the Don
  • Tigris, who waters the Fertile Crescent

Oceanids

Some notable Oceanids are



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