Strymon_(mythology)

Strymon (mythology)

Strymon (mythology)

Greek river-god

For the river, see Struma (river).

In Greek mythology, Strymon (/stryˈmɔːn/; Ancient Greek: Στρυμών) was a river-god and son of the Titans Oceanus and his sister-wife Tethys.[1] He was a king of Thrace.[2] By the Muses,[3] Euterpe[4] or Calliope[5] or Terpsichore,[6] he became the father of Rhesus. His other sons were Olynthus[7] and Brangas.[2]

O: head of river-god Strymon R: trident This coin was struck by Serdi tribe in 187-168 BC or later. It is an overstrike on official Macedonian coin and imitates another Macedonian type.

Neaera bore Strymon's daughter, Evadne who became the wife of King Argus.[8] He was also the father of Tereine who mothered Thrassa by the god Ares.[9] Another daughter, Rhodope became the mother of Athos by Poseidon.[10]

Notes

  1. [1]
    Hesiod, Theogony 339
  2. [2]
    Conon, Narrations, 4
  3. [3]
    Euripides, Rhesus 347
  4. [4]
    Servius, Commentary on Virgil's Aeneid 1.469
  5. [5]
    Apollodorus, 1.3.4
  6. [6]
    Eustathius on Homer, Iliad p. 817
  7. [7]
    Stephanus of Byzantium, Ethnica s.v. Olynthus
  8. [8]
    Apollodorus, 2.1.2
  9. [9]
    Antoninus Liberalis, Metamorphosis 21
  10. [10]
    Scholia on Theocritus, Idyll 7.76

References

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)

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