![]() ![]() Of the same descent Rivers : Strymon, Nile, Euphrates, Tanais, Indus, Cephisus, Ismenus, Axenus, Achelous, Simoeis, Inachus, Alpheus, Thermodon, Scamandrus, Tigris, Maeandrus, Orontes." ![]() " built the battlements that keep their founder's name where, as she strolled beside Maeander's winding banks, her father's stream, that turns so often back upon its course, he joined in love a Nympha of beauty rare, Cyanee." "Ankaios (Ancaeus) took to wife Samia, the daughter of the river Maiandros (Maeander)." "And they say that lawsuits are brought against the god Maiandros (Maeander) for altering the boundaries of the countries on his banks, that is, when the projecting elbows of land are swept away by him and that when he is convicted the fines are paid from the tolls collected at the ferries." Strymon and Maiandros (Maeander), Istros (Ister) of the beautiful waters. "Tethys bore to Okeanos (Oceanus) the swirling Potamoi (Rivers). Evelyn-White) (Greek epic C8th or 7th B.C.) : Source: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. He was the father of Cyanea and Canaus, who is hence called Maeandrius. MAEANDRUS (Maiandros), a son of Oceanus and Tethys, and the god of the winding river Maeander in Phrygia. Perhaps SALMAKIS, THE NYMPHAI KARIAI, THE MYKALESSIDES KYANEE (Ovid Metamorphoses 9.446, Nonnus Dionysiaca 11.449) OKEANOS & TETHYS (Hesiod Theogony 339, Hyginus Preface) OFFSPRING The major neighbouring rivers were the Kaystros (Cayster) to the north and the Indos to the south. The River Maiandros had its headwaters the highlands of southern Phrygia and, flowing west through Karia, entered the Aegean Sea opposite the town of Miletos (Miletus). MAIANDROS (Maeander) was a river-god of Karia (Caria) in Anatolia (modern Turkey). ![]()
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