Amphryssos
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The Amphrysus ( - Amphrysos or - Amphryssos) was a river in ancient Thessaly, flowing from Mount Othrys to the Pagasetic Gulf. According to Strabo, it flowed close to the walls of the town Halos.
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- water deity
- Country
- Greece
- Located in
- Municipality of Stylida
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- mouth of the watercourse
- Pagasetic Gulf
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The Amphrysus ( - Amphrysos or - Amphryssos) was a river in ancient Thessaly, flowing from Mount Othrys to the Pagasetic Gulf. According to Strabo, it flowed close to the walls of the town Halos.
In Callimachus' "Hymn to Apollo" (48) Apollo tends Admetus' herds by the Amphryssos during his punishment for killing the Cyclopes. In the Argonautica (I.53) of Apollonius of Rhodes Eupolemeia bore the Argonaut Aethalides to Hermes near the Amphryssos.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Amphryssos” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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