Asopus
Asopus is a river-god in Greek mythology. He is the son of Poseidon and Celusa.
↻ synthesized from 5 sources
When
- First attested
- 800 BCE
- Attested period
- -800 – 2020
- Historical notes
- Attested in classical Greek mythology.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Pero, Halia, Ialysus, Cameirus, Lindus, Helios, Aphrodite, Triton, Amphitrite, Oceanus, Ares, Dionysus, Achelous
- child of
- Celusa, Kelousa, Poseidon, Eurynome (Queen of the Titans), Zeus
Mentioned by
Sources
- peer reviewed
Source passages
“She born the river-god Asopus to Poseidon.”
#9036 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“while according to a scholion on Odyssey 17.208 (calling her "Rhode"), her father was the river-god Asopus, thus making her a Naiad”
#11475 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“Some say the river Asopus is the son of Zeus and Eurynome." Eurynome was worshipped at the confluence of the rivers Neda and Lymax in Arcadia. Her xoanon, which could only be viewed when her sanctuary was opened once a year, was a wooden statue bound in golden chains depicting a woman's upper body and the lower body of a fish. Her son Asopus was the god of a nearby stream in the adjacent region of Sikyonia.”
#28336 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“Pirene or Peirene (Ancient Greek: Πειρήνη, lit. 'of the osiers'), a nymph, was either the daughter of the river god Asopus, Laconian king Oebalus, or the river god Achelous, in different sources.”
#42769 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“In Greek legend, the mother of Amphion and Zethus, and, according to Homer (Od. xi. 260), a daughter of the Boeotian river-god Asopus.”
#44221 · extracted by openai/gpt-oss-120b:free