Asopus River

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The Asopus River is an ancient river in the northeastern Peloponnese of Greece, frequently mentioned in Greek mythology and classical literature.

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Asopus River canonical 3

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Predicate Object
instanceOf mythological river
river
appearsIn Pausanias' Description of Greece NERFINISHED
Pindar's odes NERFINISHED
various ancient Greek tragedies
works of Herodotus NERFINISHED
associatedWith Aegina Island through myth
associatedWithRegion Argolis NERFINISHED
Corinthia NERFINISHED
continent Europe
country Greece
drainsRegion northeastern Peloponnese
flowsNear Phlius NERFINISHED
Sicyon NERFINISHED
hasCulturalSignificance Greek local cults
ancient Greek religion
hasEtymology derived from ancient Greek Ἀσωπός (Asōpós)
hasLiterarySignificance frequent toponym in Greek poetry
hasMythologicalAssociationWith Aegina NERFINISHED
Sisyphus NERFINISHED
Zeus NERFINISHED
river god Asopus NERFINISHED
hasMythologicalFunction father of several nymphs in myth
personified as a god
hasMythologicalTheme divine abduction
pursuit of Zeus by a river god
hasReligiousFunction site of local cult worship
hasRoleIn abduction of Aegina myth
hasSourceRegion mountainous interior of northeastern Peloponnese
hasType freshwater body
languageOfName Greek
locatedIn Peloponnese
northeastern Peloponnese
mentionedIn Greek mythology
classical Greek literature
namedAfter Asopus (river god) NERFINISHED
partOf Greek river system
landscape of ancient northeastern Peloponnese
referencedBy ancient Greek geographers
ancient Greek historians
ancient Greek poets
timePeriodOfProminence Archaic Greece NERFINISHED
Classical Greece
worshippedAs river deity

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Phlius locatedNearRiver Asopus River
Plataea hasNearbyRiver Asopus River
Tanagra locatedNear Asopus River