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24-542: As mythological entities, the Boeotian river Asopus and the Phliasian river Asopus are much confounded. They are duplicated a second time as supposed mortal kings who gave their names to the corresponding rivers. Indeed, logically, since the children fathered by gods on various daughters of either Boeotian or Phliasian Asopus were mortal in these tales, then the daughters themselves must have been mortal, and therefore either

48-490: A group sculpture in the sanctuary of Hippodamia at Olympia donated by the Phliasians. It included Nemea, Zeus seizing Aegina, Harpina , Corcyra, Thebe, and Asopus himself. It seems the Phliasians were insistent that Thebe belonged to their Asopus. According to Pherecydes , Asopus also fathered Philyra who became the mother of Hypseus by Peneus . In some sources, Pronoe who was the mother of Phocus by Poseidon

72-593: A list. Pausanias mentions three supposed daughters of Phliasian Asopus named Corcyra, Aegina, and Thebe according to the Phliasians and notes additionally that the Thebans insist that this Thebe was daughter of the Boeotian Asopus. He mentions no dispute about the others which suggests that in his time the assignment of Aegina to the Phliasian Asopus was generally admitted. Pausanias also describes

96-649: A settler in Phlius and wife of Metope daughter of Ladon , presumably here and elsewhere the Arcadian river Ladon. Pausanias mentions his daughter Nemea , eponym for the region of the same name (possibly the mother of Archemorus in Aeschylus ' lost play Nemea ). Pausanias and Diodorus Siculus also mention a daughter Harpina and state that according to the traditions of the Eleans and Phliasians, Ares lay with her in

120-488: A thunderbolt, whence ever after Asopus is lame and flows very slowly, a feature ascribed to both the Boeotian and Phliasian Asopus. In these tales Asopus discovers the truth about the abduction from Sisyphus , King of Corinth in return for creating a spring on the Corinthian Acropolis . This spring, according to Pausanias was behind the temple of Aphrodite and people said its water was the same as that of

144-535: Is different from Wikidata Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text All set index articles Phaeax (mythology) In Greek Mythology , Phaeax ( Ancient Greek : Φαίαξ ) was a son of Poseidon and Korkyra ( Cercyra ), from whom the Phaeacians derived their name. He was the father of Alcinous and Locrus . When Phaeax, who reigned in the island of Scheria , died, Alkinous and Lokros after quarreling came together again on

168-406: Is more than one river named Asopus. Pausanias writes that during the reign of Aras , the first earth-born king of Sicyonian land, Asopus, said to be son of Poseidon by Celusa (this Celusa otherwise unknown but possibly identical to Pero mentioned above), discovered for him the river called Asopus and gave it his name. Diodorus Siculus similarly presents Asopus (here son of Oceanus and Tethys) as

192-496: Is near Boeotia, but Salamis and Aegina are regions that would perhaps associate better with the Phliasian Asopus. Korkyra ( Corfu ) is definitely Corinthian rather than Boeotian. Sinope is surely the colony of Sinope on the Black Sea (founded from Miletus). It is notable that tradition as it comes down to us does not record any children resulting from a union of gods with Thebe, Plataea, Thespia or Tanagra and only Diodorus mentions

216-750: The Perseus Digital Library . [REDACTED] [REDACTED] This article includes a list of Greek mythological figures with the same or similar names. If an internal link for a specific Greek mythology article referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended Greek mythology article, if one exists. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Metope_(mythology)&oldid=1239029793 " Categories : Naiads Children of Potamoi Mythological blind people Set index articles on Greek mythology Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description

240-1018: The Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website . Apollonius Rhodius , Argonautica translated by Robert Cooper Seaton (1853–1915), R. C. Loeb Classical Library Volume 001. London, William Heinemann Ltd, 1912. Online version at the Topos Text Project. Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica . George W. Mooney. London. Longmans, Green. 1912. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library . Diodorus Siculus , The Library of History translated by Charles Henry Oldfather . Twelve volumes. Loeb Classical Library . Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1989. Vol. 3. Books 4.59–8. Online version at Bill Thayer's Web Site . Homer , The Odyssey with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, PH.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1919. ISBN   978-0674995611 . Online version at

264-510: The Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website . Pindar , Odes translated by Diane Arnson Svarlien. 1990. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Pindar, The Odes of Pindar including the Principal Fragments with an Introduction and an English Translation by Sir John Sandys, Litt.D., FBA. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1937. Greek text available at

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288-459: The basis that Alkinous would be king of Phaiakis, and Lokros would take the heirlooms and part of the ethnos to make a colony. [REDACTED]  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain :  Smith, William , ed. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology . {{ cite encyclopedia }} : Missing or empty |title= ( help ) This article relating to Greek mythology

312-581: The city of Pisa and they had a son, Oenomaus , who Pausanias says founded the city of Harpina named after her, not far from the river Harpinates. The Bibliotheca refers to Ismene daughter of Asopus who was wife of Argus Panoptes to whom she bore Iasus , the father of Io . We find first in Pindar 's odes the sisters, Aegina and Thebe , here the youngest daughters of Boeotian Asopus by Metope who came from Stymphalia in Arcadia . Both are abducted by

336-428: The exact parentage of these children of Asopus is very vague. Metope, a daughter of the above Asopus in some accounts. Metope, consort of the river god Sangarius . Some say these were the possible parents of Hecuba . She may be identical or different from the above Metope. Metope, an Epirotian princess as the daughter of King Echetus . She had an intrigue with a lover and as a punishment her father mutilated

360-703: The following: Metope, the Arcadian naiad daughter of the Potamoi Ladon and Stymphalis , thus sister to Daphne . Her waters were near the town of Stymphalus in the Peloponnesus . She married the river god Asopus by whom she had several (either 12 or 20 ) daughters, including Aegina , Salamis , Thebe , Corcyra , Tanagra , Thespia , Cleone , Sinope , Peirene , Asopis , Ornea , Chalcis , Harpina and Ismene ; and sons, including Pelagon ( Pelasgus ) and Ismenus . The question of

384-509: The god Zeus, one carried to the island of Oenone later to be named Aegina and the other to Dirce 's water to be queen there. Corinna , Pindar's contemporary, in a damaged fragment, mentions nine daughters of Boeotian Asopus: Aegina , Thebe , and Plataea abducted by Zeus; Corcyra , Salamis , and Euboea abducted by Poseidon ; Sinope and Thespia (who has been dealt with above) abducted by Apollo ; and Tanagra abducted by Hermes . Asopus cannot discover what has become of them until

408-1371: The lover and blinded Metope by piercing her eyes with bronze needles. He then incarcerated her in a tower and gave her grains of bronze, promising that she would regain her sight when she had ground these grains into flour. Eustathius and the scholia on this passage call the daughter and her lover Amphissa and Aechmodicus respectively. Notes [ edit ] ^ Diodorus Siculus , 4.72.1 ; Apollodorus , 3.12.6 . ^ Scholia ad Pindar , Olympian Ode 6.144 ^ Pindar , Olympian Odes 6.83 ^ Diodorus Siculus, 4.72.1 ^ Apollodorus, 3.12.6 ^ Diodorus Siculus, 4.61.1 ; Apollodorus , 1.9.3 & 3.12.6 ^ Diodorus Siculus, 4.73.1 ^ Apollodorus, 2.1.3 ^ Scholiast on Pindar's Isthmian Odes 8.37 ^ Apollodorus, 3.12.5 ^ Homer , Odyssey 18.85, 18.116 & 21.307; Apollonius Rhodius , 4.1093 ^ George W. Mooney, Commentary on Apollonius: Argonautica 4.1093 ^ Eustathius on Homer, p. 1839 References [ edit ] Apollodorus , The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. ISBN   0-674-99135-4 . Online version at

432-404: The mother of these daughters (often given as Metope daughter of river Ladon ) or their father Asopus must have been mortal, or both of them. The Bibliotheca informs that the river Asopus was a son of Oceanus and Tethys or, according to Acusilaus , of Poseidon by Pero (otherwise unknown to us), or according to yet others of Zeus by Eurynome ; it is uncertain whether he knows there

456-519: The otherwise unknown sons Phaiax , son of Poseidon by Corcyra, and Syrus sprung from Apollo by Sinope and that this child of Sinope is opposed by a conflicting tradition that Sinope tricked Zeus, Apollo and Halys and remained a virgin. Later texts mostly indicate Zeus' abduction of Aegina, presented as a solitary abduction. Asopus is often clearly the Phliasian Asopus (so indicated by Pherecydes ) but not always so. Asopus chases after Zeus and his daughter until Zeus turns upon him and strikes him with

480-457: The seer Acraephen (otherwise unknown) tells him that the gods Eros and Aphrodite persuaded the four gods to come secretly to his house and steal his nine daughters. He advises Asopus to yield to the immortals and cease grieving since he is father-in-law to gods. This hints that perhaps, for Corinna, Asopus himself is not a god. Asopus accepts Acraephen's advice. Of these daughters, Thebe, Plataea, Thespia and Tanagra are properly Boeotian. Euboea

504-523: The small city of Cleonae on the road from Corinth to Argos according to Pausanias), Ornia (possible eponym of the small town of Orneai south of Phlius ), and Asopis . But Asopis may mean Asopian and be an epithet for one of the other known daughters. Ovid in his poem Metamorphoses twice calls Aegina by the name Asopis . Indeed, in his very next section Diodorus discusses Asopus' daughter Harpina who has been discussed above. Apollodorus claims Asopus had twenty daughters but he does not provide

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528-630: The spring Peirene , the water in the city flowing from it underground. Diodorus Siculus who, as mentioned, places his Asopus in Phlius, gives him twelve daughters. Diodorus' list omits the Plataea and Boeotia included by Corinna's list of nine daughters. But it introduces Chalcis which was the chief city of Boeotia and may represent Boeotia. To make up the twelve Diodorus' list also adds Peirene (the famous spring in Corinth), Cleone (possible eponym of

552-1167: The war of the Seven against Thebes was killed by Capaneus . Metope (mythology) Nymph in Greek mythology Greek deities series Primordial deities Titans and Olympians Water deities Chthonic deities Personified concepts Nymphs Alseid Anthousai Auloniad Aurae Crinaeae Daphnaie Dryads Eleionomae Epimeliads Hamadryads Hesperides Hyades Lampades Leuce Limnades Meliae Minthe Naiads Napaeae Nephele Nereids Oceanids Oreads Pegaeae Pegasides Pleiades Potamides Semystra Thriae v t e In Greek mythology , Metope / m ɪ ˈ t oʊ p iː / ( Ancient Greek : Μετώπη ) may refer to

576-422: Was a daughter of Asopus. Both Apollodrus and Diodorus also mention two sons of Asopus, the first named Ismenus and the second named Pelagon (by Apollodorus) or Pelasgus (by Diodorus). Nothing else has survived about this Pelagon. Of Ismenus, Diodorus states only that he emigrated to Boeotia and settled near the Boeotian river, which was afterwards named Ismenus from his name. Another son, Hypseus who fought in

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