In
Greek mythology,
Atrax was the son of the river god
Peneus and
Bura. He was believed to have been the founder and
eponym of Atrax or Atracia, a city in
Thessaly. He had three daughters:
Hippodamia (wife of Pirithous); Caenis, who transformed into a male,
Caeneus; and Damasippe, who was married to Cassandrus of
Thrace and fell in love with her stepson Hebrus (Cassandrus' son by his first wife Crotonice); as he rejected all her advances, she took revenge on him by falsely accusing him of seducing her; Cassandrus believed the accusations and tried to kill Hebrus, who threw himself into the river Rhombus, which was subsequently renamed
Hebrus.