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	RIVER GODS, Greek Mythology Link - www.maicar.com
		River in Lydia, father of Ephesus, the founder of the sanctuary of Ephesian Artemis and the eponym of the city Ephesus [Pau.7.2.7].
		Peneus' daughter Stilbe consorted with Apollo and gave birth to Lapithus 1 and Centaurus, the father of the CENTAURS.
		This is the river Rion in Colchis (Georgia in the Caucasus).
	homepage.mac.com /cparada/GML/RIVERGODS.html (2326 words)

	Peneus River - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Peneus River (modern Greek: Πηνειός Piniós,) is one of two Greek rivers.
		Another Peneus River (probably not named after the god) flows from the mountain, Erymanthus (Olonos), and empties into a bay SW of Gastouni connecting the Ionian Sea.
		In ancient times, the river passed east of what is nowStaphidokampos, the Andravida Military Airport, Lechaina, and the former wetlands where is now drained for agricultural purposes near Aghios Panteleimonas.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Peneus_River (356 words)

	Peneus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In Greek mythology, Peneus (Πηνειός) was a river god, one of the three-thousand Oceanids, a child of Oceanus and Tethys.
		Peneus River (known for most of the 1000s as Salambria) is named after this god.
		Another Peneus River (probably not named after this god) flows from the mountain Erymanthus (Olonos) and empties into a bay SW of Gastouni connecting the Ionian Sea.
	www.encyclopedia-online.info /Peneus (362 words)

	Peneus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In Greek mythology, Peneus (Πηνειός) was a river god, one of the three-thousand Rivers, a child of Oceanus and Tethys.
		Eros, the Greek God of Love, shot Apollo, the Greek God of the sun, with one of his arrows, causing him to fall in love with the dryad Daphne, daughter of Ladon.
		Daphne prayed to the river god Peneus to help her, and he changed her into a laurel tree, which later became sacred to Apollo.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Peneus (148 words)

	THEOI Greek Myth Encyclopedia P
		PEUCE (Peuke) The Naiad nymph of an isle of the river Ister (the Danube).
		PITANE A Naiad nymph daughter of the Spartan river Eurotas.
		PROSYMNA A Naiad nymph daughter of the river Asterion.
	www.theoi.com /Encyc_P.html (1833 words)

	Peneus - Encyclopedia.com
		Apollo was madly in love with Daphne, the daughter of Peneus, which Renfro said "is an interesting name." Daphne wished to enjoy a lifelong virginity, so she didn't want to get involved...
		Your Helicon is nothing: the Islands of the Blest are a fable: the Sicyonian plain is a trifle: the accounts of the Peneus are another case of poetic exaggeration--that river which they say by overflowing with its rich current the banks which flank...
		Peneus turns Daphne into a tree, a laurel, evergreen (as Apollo puts it, 'And as eternal youth is mine, you also shall be always green...
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-X-Peneus.html (499 words)

	Kentro (Ilia), Greece - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kentro, Kendro or Kedro (Greek, Modern: Κέντρο, Ancient/Katharevousa: -on, meaning centre (center), older forms Kentron, Kendron, Kedron, mainly named for the central part of the Pineios River is a village located in the municipality of Amaliada in the northern part of the prefecture of Ilia in the western part of the Peloponnese.
		It used to be passed by a road connecting Gastouni and the Thermal Springs of Kyllini and Simopoulo until a dam was being opened.
		The Pineios River used to flow south of the town centre but today, it flows in the southern part with a suspension bridge in the west making it the only suspension bridge in the Peloponnese and Western Greece until the opening of the Rio-Antirio bridge.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kentro_(Ilia),_Greece (424 words)

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		Larissa, the capital of the prefecture, is built on the position of the ancient city, on the banks of Peneus.
		It is built in the famous, covered with plants and trees, valley of Tempes which is lying between the mountains of Olympus and Ossa and it is splitted by Peneus River.
		Tempes` plain is lying between the steep and rocky south boarders of Olympus and the north slopes of the mountain of Ossa or else Kissavus and it is splitted by Peneus River.
	www.xeniosmagazine.gr /regions/thessaly/index.html (926 words)

	In Greek mythology Greek mythology Peneus #928 #951 #957 #949 #953...
		In Greek mythology Greek mythology, "Peneus" (Πηνειός) was a river god, one of the three-thousand Oceanids Oceanids, a child of Oceanus Oceanus and Tethys Tethys.
		"Peneus River Peneus River" (known for most of the 1000s as Salambria) is named after this god.
		Another "Peneus River" (probably not named after this god) flows from the mountain Erymanthus Erymanthus (Olonos) and empties into a bay SW of Gastouni Gastouni connecting the Ionian Sea Ionian Sea.
	www.biodatabase.de /Peneus (450 words)

	Ixion, Greek Mythology Link - www.maicar.com
		Both CENTAURS and LAPITHS are descended from the god of the river Peneus, which is in Thessaly.
		Lapithus 1, it is told, settled in the region about the Peneus river, and having married Orsinome, begat two sons Phorbas 2 and Periphas 2, who reigned in this district calling their subjects LAPITHS after Lapithus 1.
		Periphas 2 was son of Lapithus 1, son of Apollo and Stilbe, daughter of the river god Peneus.
	homepage.mac.com /cparada/GML/Ixion.html (839 words)

	Coastal change and archaeological settings in Elis.(western Peloponnese, Greece) - Hesperia - HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		An intriguing aspect of the studies of coastal Ells is that the ancient literature is replete with references to flooding events of the Alpheios River caused by the catastrophic drainage of temporarily dammed lakes in the interior karst topography of western Arcadia.
		The shoreline of this former Peneus River delta is one of marine transgression and coastal erosion, as is to be expected in a former delta now deprived of its sediment load.
		4); Agoulenitsa Lagoon to the southeast ofthe Alpheios River delta; and Lake Kasta and the shallow coastal Mouria Lagoon to the northwest ofthe Alpheios River delta.
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	Prefecture of Elia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The longest river is the Alpheus River Πόταμος Αλφειόυ Alfeios).
		Peneus used to emptied near what now Lechaina and Aghios Panteleimonas in ancient The distance of Peneus river flows near today.
		Peneus Dam also has a watch tower a water control station which guards the flow of that reservoir.
	www.freeglossary.com /Elia (3937 words)

	MythNET - Eight Brief Tales of Lovers
		Peneus grew tired because she refused the hand of all young men who wooed her and often asked Daphne "Am I never to have a grandson?" She insisted on being like Diana.
		She undressed and bathed in the river, which was a place that was perfect for bathing.
		The story is that the god changed back into a river, followed her through the tunnel and the now his water mingles with hers in the fountain.
	www.classicsunveiled.com /mythnet/html/brief4.html (536 words)

	PENEUS : River god of Thessaly in Greece ; Greek mythology : PENEIOS
		PENEIOS (or Peneus) was a River-God of Thessalia in northern Greece.
		The Peneios was the main river of the Thessalian plain, flowing down from the Pindaros Mountains, to enter the Aegean Sea via the Vale of Tempe, cutting a path between the Mount Olympos and Ossa.
		The most important neighbouring rivers were the Baphyras to the north, and the Anauros and Sperkheios to the south.
	www.theoi.com /Potamos/PotamosPeneios.html (1234 words)

	Peneus
		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.
		Daphne prayed to the river god Peneus to help her, and he changed her into a laurel tree, which later became sacred to Apollo.
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/Mythology/Peneus.html (199 words)

	Daphne - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		According to Greek myth Apollo chased the dryad Daphne (Greek: Δάφνη, meaning "laurel"), daughter of Peneus.
		His infatuation was caused by an arrow from Eros, who was jealous because Apollo had made fun of his archery skills.
		Daphne prayed to the river god Peneus to help her and he changed her into a Lauraceae tree, which became sacred to Apollo.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Daphne (332 words)

	F. Pouqueville - Travels.. - 15
		The verge between the Peneus and the base of Olympus is very narrow, and about the middle you discover in a hollow the chapel of St. Veneranda, or the most venerable and holy, a title by which the Greeks intended to denote the Holy Spirit.
		On the north it is bounded by the river Peneus and Tempe; on the west, by the district of Phener or Larissa; by the district of Thaumaco, on Mount Othrys, to the south-west; by that of Volo and Velestina on the south-east; and by the sea on the east.
		A quarter of a league south-east from Alicouli, you pass near Bejani, a Greek village, from which flows to the Peneus a river supposed to be the Onochonus, the only stream of Thessaly, according to Herodotus, which was not sufficient to quench the thirst of the army of Xerxes, on his progress through the country.
	www.kroraina.com /knigi/en/fp/fp_15.html (4765 words)

	Agia Triada (Ilia), Greece - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Pineios River flows north of the community and also the Achaea prefecture is to the north of the river.
		The village is located on a valley with the Peneus River and curvy roads up to the bridge of GR-33.
		The mountains of Skollis in the northwest and Erymanthus to the east can be seen.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Agia_Triada_(Ilia),_Greece (183 words)

	The Advent of Dionysus / Gerarai / The Fourteen / 4.02
		A water nymph, and daughter of the river god Peneus, Daphne was the first love of Apollo, the god of light and reason.
		Thus as Daphne's element was water, she corresponds to the thought stream or, the understanding (what a river signifies in spiritual terms), an appropriate element, for she appeals directly to Apollo's understanding.
		While at the time she conveyed a special fondness for the river, in how she delighted in being there and liked to play.
	www.dionysus.org /x0402.html (4311 words)

	How Tempe Got its Name
		The sight of the butte, the wide river, and the nearby expanse of green fields reminded him of the Vale of Tempe in ancient Greece.
		A vale is a valley with a stream or river running through it.
		In fact, the laurel used in wreaths to crown the victors in the Pythian Games at Delphi was traditionally collected from the banks of the river Peneus that winds through the Vale of Tempe.
	www.tempe.gov /museum/Tempe_history/basics/name.htm (417 words)

	Turkish Mosque c.1780's Moore
		"View of a Turkish Mosque on the river Peneus, with a distant prospect of the city of Larissa," published c.
		Larissa is located on the Salembria river (whose ancient name is the Peneus river), 20 miles from the Gulf of Salonica.
		Shows the river, with several camels wading in the water and being idle on its shore.
	www.oldmapsbooks.com /MapPage/MapPages572xx/57269Turkey.htm (344 words)

	Part 12 of In Cath Catharda: The Civil War of the Romans
		There came the inhabitants of the river Absyrtis and the river Peneus.
		There came the kindreds of the river Pactolus and the river Hermus, and all golden is the sand that is got in that river.
		There came the inhabitants of the Rhipaean mountain-range, and the inhabitants of the river Tanais on the boundary of Europe and Asia.
	www.ucc.ie /celt/online/T305001/text012.html (805 words)

	Peneus - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		This page was last modified 23:58, 21 April 2006.
		This encyclopedia, history, geography and biography article about Peneus contains research on
		Peneus, External links, Achaea, Greek gods and Sea and river gods.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Peneus (164 words)

	Ancient Greek Sculptures
		Daphne was the daughter of the river god Peneus.
		Apollo chased down the maiden, desperate for her love, but she wanted nothing to do with him, and she ran from him endlessly.
		As all gods of water posses the ability of transformation, Peneus transformed his daughter into a laurel tree.
	www.hellenic-art.com /statues/daphne.htm (150 words)

	Holidays in Greece. Greece geography. Greek travel guide
		Thessaly is a fertile plain enclosed by lofty mountains, and drained by the river Peneus, which finds its way into the sea through the celebrated Vale of Tempe.
		Epirus is covered by rugged ranges of mountains running from north to south, through which the Achelous the largest river of Greece, flows towards the Corinthian gulf.
		In entering central Greece from Thessaly the road runs along the coast through the narrow pass of Thermopylae, between the sea and a lofty range of mountains.
	www.greece-travel.gr /geography.htm (1077 words)

	Apollo Chasing Daphne by MARATTI, Carlo
		In the foreground lies Peneus, recognisable as river god by his crock of flowing water.
		The Académie that the king had founded, with its ideals of unity of place, time and action, reproached Maratti for depicting the river god Apianus in the background, although Ovid mentions only later in the story that this god lamented Daphne's lot together with Peneus.
		In accordance with the art theory of the time, which encouraged rivalry between artists, many French artists attempted to improve Maratti's composition by observing the academic rules in their own works with the same theme.
	gallery.euroweb.hu /html/m/maratti/apollo_d.html (408 words)

	My Calydonian Boar Hunt
		Peneus, a peoples on the river by the same name in northern Greece (Thessaly), should therefore be viewed as a Hermes bloodline.
		Because Tiresias and Peneus are both depicted as Daphne's father, Tiresias is thus identified as some portion of the Peneus peoples depicted by a pine tree.
		This suggests that Merlin was from, or in love with, the Endymion bloodline, and indeed Endymion was from Thessaly on the Peneus river wherefore he appears as the Daphne peoples.
	www.tribwatch.com /boar.htm (4787 words)

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