Peneus

In Greek mythology, Peneus (pronounced: /pəˈniːəs/; Greek: Πηνειός) was a Phessalian river god, one of the three thousand Rivers (Potamoi), a child of and Tethys.Hesiod, Theogony, 343 The nymph Creusa bore him one son, Hypseus, who was King of the Lapiths,Diodorus Siculus, Library of History, 4. 69. 1Pindar, Pythian Ode 9 and three daughters, Menippe (mother of Phrastor by Pelasgus),Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities 1. 28 DaphneOvid, Metamorphoses 1.452Hyginus, Fabulae 203 and Stilbe. He also had a son Atrax with Bura,Stephanus of Byzantium s. v. Atrax and Andreus with an unknown consort.Pausanias, Description of Greece 9. 34. 6 Tricce, eponym of the city Tricca, was mentioned as his daughter.Stephanus of Byzantium s. v. Trikkē Some sources state that he was the father of Cyrene,Hyginus, Fabulae 161Virgil Georgics 4. 320 alternately known as his granddaughter through Hypseus. Daphne, in an Arcadian version of the myth, was, instead, the daughter of the river god Ladon.Pausanias 10.7.8Statius Thebaid 4.289Nonnus Dionysiaca 42. 386
Eros shot Apollo with one of his arrows, causing him to fall in love with Daphne. It was Eros's plan that Daphne would scorn Apollo because Eros was angry that Apollo had made fun of his archery skills. Eros also claimed to be irritated by Apollo's singing. Daphne prayed to the river god Peneus to help her. He changed her into a laurel tree, which later became sacred to Apollo.
==References==
==External links==
*Theoi Project - Peneios
Category:Greek Mythology
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