Asopus


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Asopus
Asopus (; Asôpos) is the name of five different rivers in Greece and one in Turkey. In Greek mythology, it was also the name of the gods of those rivers.

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Asopus
[Greek] The Greek god of the river of that name, which flows through Boeotia, Central Greece. Asopus is the son of Oceanus and Tethys. He is the father of Aegina. When his daughter was abducted by Zeus, he persued them but Zeus drove him back with thunderbolts.