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O: head of
river-god Strymon
R:
trident This coin was struck by
Serdi tribe in 187-168 BC or later. It is an
overstrike on official
Macedonian coin and imitates another
Macedonian type. Greek river-god
In
Greek mythology , Strymon (/stryˈmɔːn/;
Ancient Greek : Στρυμών) was a
river-god and son of the
Titans
Oceanus and his sister-wife
Tethys .
[1] He was a king of
Thrace .
[2] By the
Muses ,
[3]
Euterpe
[4] or
Calliope
[5] or
Terpsichore ,
[6] he became the father of
Rhesus . His other sons were
Olynthus
[7] and
Brangas .
[2]
Neaera bore Strymon's daughter,
Evadne who became the wife of King
Argus .
[8] He was also the father of
Tereine who mothered
Thrassa by the god
Ares .
[9] Another daughter,
Rhodope became the mother of
Athos by
Poseidon .
[10]
Notes
^
Hesiod ,
Theogony 339
^
a
b
Conon , Narrations , 4
^
Euripides ,
Rhesus 347
^
Servius , Commentary on
Virgil's
Aeneid 1.469
^
Apollodorus , 1.3.4
^
Eustathius on
Homer ,
Iliad p. 817
^
Stephanus of Byzantium , Ethnica s.v. Olynthus
^ Apollodorus, 2.1.2
^
Antoninus Liberalis , Metamorphosis 21
^
Scholia on
Theocritus ,
Idyll 7.76
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Greek text available from the same website .
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Online version at the Topos Text Project.
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Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library .
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Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
Greek text available from the same website .
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Online version at the Perseus Digital Library .
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
public domain :
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Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology .