Asopus

Role: river god · First appears: Apollodorus, Library 1.9

Asopus is a river god. In Apollodorus’s earlier references, Aegina and Ismene are named as his daughters. Later, his parentage is given in several versions: he is the son of Ocean and Tethys, or of Pero and Poseidon, or of Zeus and Eurynome.

Asopus married Metope, daughter of the river Ladon. She bore him two sons, Ismenus and Pelagon, and twenty daughters, including Aegina. Asopus later came to Corinth and learned from Sisyphus that Zeus was the ravisher of Aegina.

Relationship record

Apollodorus, Library 1.9

child: Aegina “Aegina , daughter of Asopus”

Apollodorus, Library 2.1

child: Ismene “Ismene, daughter of Asopus”

Apollodorus, Library 3.12

parent: Ocean “The Asopus river was a son of Ocean and Tethys”
parent: Tethys “The Asopus river was a son of Ocean and Tethys”
parent: Poseidon “or, as Acusilaus says, of Pero and Poseidon”
parent: Pero “or, as Acusilaus says, of Pero and Poseidon”
parent: Zeus “or, according to some, of Zeus and Eurynome”
parent: Eurynome “or, according to some, of Zeus and Eurynome”
married with Metope “Him Metope, herself a daughter of the river Ladon, married and bore two sons, Ismenus and Pelagon, and twenty daughters, of whom one, Aegina, was carried off by Zeus.”
child: Ismenus “bore two sons, Ismenus and Pelagon”
child: Pelagon “bore two sons, Ismenus and Pelagon”
with Sisyphus (interaction) “Asopus came to Corinth, and learned from Sisyphus that the ravisher was Zeus”

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