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Nilus (mythology), the Glossary

In Greek mythology, Nilus (Neilos) is one of the three thousand Potamoi, the river gods, who represent the god of the Nile river itself.^[1]

67 relations: Achelous, Achelous River, Achiroe, Aegyptus, Aeneid, Agenor, Alpheus (deity), Anippe (mythology), Apollonius of Rhodes, Argiope (mythology), Belus (Egyptian), Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus), Busiris (mythology), Caliadne, Callirhoe (mythology), Callirhoe (Oceanid), Cephissus (mythology), Chione (daughter of Callirrhoe), Copts, Danaus, Don (river), Egypt, Epaphus, Eridanos (river of Hades), Euphrates, Euripides, Europa (Greek myth), Eurryroe, Euthenia, Fragmente der griechischen Historiker, Gaius Julius Hyginus, Greek mythology, Hapi (Nile god), Hesiod, Homer, Iliad, Inachus, Indus River, Ismenus, John Tzetzes, Libya of Egypt, Meander (mythology), Memphis (mythology), Nephele, Nile, Nile God Statue, Naples, Oceanids, Oceanus, Orontes River, Pherecydes of Athens, ... Expand index (17 more) »
Hellenistic Egyptian deities
Personifications of rivers

Achelous

In ancient Greek religion and mythology, Achelous (also Acheloos or Acheloios) (Ancient Greek: Ἀχελώϊος, and later Ἀχελῷος, Akhelôios) was the god associated with the Achelous River, the largest river in Greece. Nilus (mythology) and Achelous are Potamoi.

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Achelous River

The Achelous (Αχελώος, Ἀχελῷος Akhelôios), also Acheloos, is a river in Epirus, western Greece.

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Achiroe

Achiroë (Ἀχιρόη), Anchirrhoë (Ἀγχιρρόη), or Anchinoë (Ἀγχινόη),Apollodorus, which is perhaps a mistake for Anchiroë, was in Greek mythology an Egyptian naiad, as daughter of the river-god Nilus.

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Aegyptus

In Greek mythology, Aegyptus or Ægyptus (Αἴγυπτος) was a legendary king of ancient Egypt.

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Aeneid

The Aeneid (Aenē̆is or) is a Latin epic poem that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who fled the fall of Troy and travelled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Romans.

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Agenor

Agenor (Ancient Greek: Ἀγήνωρ or Αγήνορας Agēnor; English translation: "heroic, manly") was in Greek mythology and history a Phoenician king of Tyre or Sidon.

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Alpheus (deity)

Alpheus or Alpheios (Ἀλφειός, meaning "whitish"), was in Greek mythology a river (the modern Alfeios River) and river god. Nilus (mythology) and Alpheus (deity) are Potamoi.

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Anippe (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Anippe (Ancient Greek: Ἀνίππης) was the Egyptian daughter of the river-god Nilus, thus she can be considered as a naiad.

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Apollonius of Rhodes

Apollonius of Rhodes (Ἀπολλώνιος Ῥόδιος Apollṓnios Rhódios; Apollonius Rhodius; fl. first half of 3rd century BC) was an ancient Greek author, best known for the Argonautica, an epic poem about Jason and the Argonauts and their quest for the Golden Fleece.

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Argiope (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Argiope (Argiópe, "silver face") may refer to.

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Belus (Egyptian)

In Greek mythology, Belus (Bêlos) was a king of Egypt and father of Aegyptus and Danaus and (usually) brother to Agenor.

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Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)

The Bibliotheca (Ancient Greek: label), also known as the Bibliotheca of Pseudo-Apollodorus, is a compendium of Greek myths and heroic legends, genealogical tables and histories arranged in three books, generally dated to the first or second century CE.

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Busiris (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Busiris (Ancient Greek: Βούσιρις) was the name shared by two figures.

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Caliadne

Caliadne (Καλιάδνη) or Caliadna, in Greek mythology, was a naiad of the river Nile, presumably one of the daughters of the river-god Nilus.

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Callirhoe (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Callirrhoe, Callirhoe, Callirrhoë, or occasionally Kallirroi may refer to the following characters.

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Callirhoe (Oceanid)

In Greek mythology, Callirhoe (or Kallirhoe, Callirrhoe) (Ancient Greek: Καλλιρό, Καλλιρρόη, or Καλλιρρόης means 'beautiful flow' or beautiful stream') was one of the Oceanids, daughters of the Titans: Oceanus and Tethys.

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Cephissus (mythology)

In Greek mythology Cephissus also spelled Kephissos (or; Kephisos) is a river god of ancient Greece, associated with the river Cephissus in Attica and/or with the river Cephissus in Boeotia, both in Greece. Nilus (mythology) and Cephissus (mythology) are Potamoi.

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Chione (daughter of Callirrhoe)

In Greek mythology, Chione or Khionê (Ancient Greek: Χιονη from χιών – chiōn, "snow") was the daughter of the Oceanid Callirrhoe and Nilus.

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Copts

Copts (niremənkhēmi; al-qibṭ) are a Christian ethnoreligious group indigenous to North Africa who have primarily inhabited the area of modern Egypt since antiquity.

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Danaus

In Greek mythology, Danaus (Δαναός Danaós) was the king of Libya.

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Don (river)

The Don (p) is the fifth-longest river in Europe.

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Egypt

Egypt (مصر), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and the Sinai Peninsula in the southwest corner of Asia.

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Epaphus

In Greek mythology, Epaphus (Ancient Greek: Ἔπᾰφος), also called '''Apis''' or Munantius, was a son of the Greek God Zeus and king of Egypt.

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Eridanos (river of Hades)

The river Eridanos or Eridanus (Ἠριδανός) is a river in Northern Europe mentioned in Greek mythology and historiography. Nilus (mythology) and Eridanos (river of Hades) are Potamoi.

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Euphrates

The Euphrates (see below) is the longest and one of the most historically important rivers of Western Asia.

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Euripides

Euripides was a tragedian of classical Athens.

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Europa (Greek myth)

In Greek mythology, Europa (/jʊəˈroʊpə, jə-/; Ancient Greek: Εὐρώπη Eurṓpē, Attic Greek pronunciation: eu̯.rɔ̌ː.pɛː) or Europe is the name of the following figures.

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Eurryroe

In Greek mythology, Eurryroe (Ancient Greek: Εùρυῥῤόης) was the daughter of the Egyptian river-god Nilus, thus she can be considered as a naiad.

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Euthenia

Euthenia (Eustheneia) was the ancient Greek female spirit of prosperity.

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Fragmente der griechischen Historiker

Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker, commonly abbreviated FGrHist or FGrH (Fragments of the Greek Historians), is a collection by Felix Jacoby of the works of those ancient Greek historians whose works have been lost, but of which we have citations, extracts or summaries.

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Gaius Julius Hyginus

Gaius Julius Hyginus (64 BC – AD 17) was a Latin author, a pupil of the scholar Alexander Polyhistor, and a freedman of Caesar Augustus.

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Greek mythology

Greek mythology is the body of myths originally told by the ancient Greeks, and a genre of ancient Greek folklore, today absorbed alongside Roman mythology into the broader designation of classical mythology.

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Hapi (Nile god)

Hapi (Ancient Egyptian: ḥꜥpj) was the god of the annual flooding of the Nile in ancient Egyptian religion. Nilus (mythology) and Hapi (Nile god) are Personifications of rivers.

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Hesiod

Hesiod (or; Ἡσίοδος Hēsíodos) was an ancient Greek poet generally thought to have been active between 750 and 650 BC, around the same time as Homer.

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Homer

Homer (Ὅμηρος,; born) was a Greek poet who is credited as the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, two epic poems that are foundational works of ancient Greek literature.

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Iliad

The Iliad (Iliás,; " about Ilion (Troy)") is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer.

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Inachus

In Greek mythology, Inachus, Inachos or Inakhos (Ancient Greek: Ἴναχος) was the first king of Argos after whom a river was called Inachus River,Apollodorus, that drains the western margin of the Argive plain. Nilus (mythology) and Inachus are Potamoi.

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Indus River

The Indus is a transboundary river of Asia and a trans-Himalayan river of South and Central Asia.

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In Greek mythology, the name Ismenus (Ancient Greek: Ἰσμηνός) or Ismenius may refer to. Nilus (mythology) and Ismenus are Potamoi.

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John Tzetzes

John Tzetzes (Iōánnēs Tzétzēs;, Constantinople – 1180, Constantinople) was a Byzantine poet and grammarian who lived at Constantinople in the 12th century.

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Libya of Egypt

Libya (mythology) (Libýē) is the daughter of Epaphus, King of Egypt, in both Greek and Roman mythology.

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Meander (mythology)

Meander, Maeander, Mæander or Maiandros (Ancient Greek: Μαίανδρος) was a river god in Greek mythology, patron deity of the Meander river (modern Büyük Menderes River) in Caria, southern Asia Minor (modern Turkey). Nilus (mythology) and Meander (mythology) are Potamoi.

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Memphis (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Memphis (Μέμφις) was the female eponym of Memphis in Egypt.

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Nephele

In Greek and Roman mythology, Nephele (cloud, mass of clouds; corresponding to Latin nebula) is a cloud nymph who figures prominently in the stories of Ixion and Phrixus and Helle.

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Nile

The Nile (also known as the Nile River) is a major north-flowing river in northeastern Africa.

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Nile God Statue, Naples

The Statue of the Nile God (Statua del dio Nilo) is an Ancient Roman, likely Hellenistic, marble statue dating from the 2nd to 3rd century AD.

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Oceanids

In Greek mythology, the Oceanids or Oceanides (Ōkeanídes, pl. of label) are the nymphs who were the three thousand (a number interpreted as meaning "innumerable") daughters of the Titans Oceanus and Tethys.

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Oceanus

In Greek mythology, Oceanus (Ὠκεανός, also Ὠγενός, Ὤγενος, or Ὠγήν) was a Titan son of Uranus and Gaia, the husband of his sister the Titan Tethys, and the father of the river gods and the Oceanids, as well as being the great river which encircled the entire world.

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Orontes River

The Orontes (from Ancient Greek Ὀρόντης) or Nahr al-ʿĀṣī, or simply Asi (translit,; Asi) is a long river in Western Asia that begins in Lebanon, flowing northwards through Syria before entering the Mediterranean Sea near Samandağ in Hatay Province, Turkey.

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Pherecydes of Athens

Pherecydes of Athens (Φερεκύδης) (fl. c. 465 BC) was a Greek mythographer who wrote an ancient work in ten books, now lost, variously titled "Historiai" (Ἱστορίαι) or "Genealogicai" (Γενελογίαι).

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Plutarch

Plutarch (Πλούταρχος, Ploútarchos;; – after AD 119) was a Greek Middle Platonist philosopher, historian, biographer, essayist, and priest at the Temple of Apollo in Delphi.

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Polyxo

Polyxo (Ancient Greek: Πολυξώ Poluxṓ) is the name of several figures in Greek mythology.

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Potamoi

The Potamoi (Rivers) are the gods of rivers and streams of the earth in Greek mythology.

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Scamander

Scamander, also Skamandros (Σκάμανδρος) or Xanthos (Ξάνθος), was a river god in Greek mythology. Nilus (mythology) and Scamander are Potamoi.

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Servius the Grammarian

Servius, distinguished as Servius the Grammarian (Servius or Seruius Grammaticus), was a late fourth-century and early fifth-century grammarian.

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Simoeis

Simoeis or Simois (Σιμόεις Simóeis) was a river of the Trojan plain, now called the Dümruk Su (Dümrek Çayı), and the name of its god in Greek mythology. Nilus (mythology) and Simoeis are Potamoi.

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Struma (river)

The Struma or Strymónas (Bulgarian: Струма; Στρυμόνας) is a river in Bulgaria and Greece.

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Telephassa

Telephassa (Τηλέφασσα, Tēléphassa, "far-shining"), also spelled Telephaassa (Τηλεφάασσα) and Telephe (Τηλέφη), is a lunar epithet in Greek mythology that is sometimes substituted for Argiope the wife of Agenor, according to his name a "leader of men" in Phoenicia, and mother of Cadmus.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nilus_(mythology)

Also known as Neilus, Neilus (Greek), Nilus (deity).

, Plutarch, Polyxo, Potamoi, Scamander, Servius the Grammarian, Simoeis, Struma (river), Telephassa, Terme River, Tethys (mythology), The Phoenician Women, Thebe (Greek myth), Theogony, Tigris, Timothy Gantz, Titans, Virgil.

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Hellenistic Egyptian deities

Personifications of rivers

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