Editing Inachus (section)

{{Short description|Character in Greek mythology}}
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[[File:Victor-Janssens Io-recognized-by-her-father.jpg|thumb|''[[Io (mythology)|Io]] recognized by her father'' ([[Victor Honoré Janssens]])]]

In [[Greek mythology]], '''Inachus,''' '''Inachos''' or '''Inakhos''' ([[Ancient Greek]]: Ἴναχος) was the first king of [[Argos, Peloponnese|Argos]].<ref>[[Eusebius]], ''[[Praeparatio evangelica|Preparation of the Gospels]]'' [https://topostext.org/work.php?work_id=230#10.9.17 10.9.17-18; 10.10.4; 10.11.2]</ref><ref name=":0">{{cite wikisource |author=Augustine of Hippo
|author-link=Augustine of Hippo 
|editor-last=Schaff |editor-first=Philip 
|editor-link=Philip Schaff
|translator-last=Dods |translator-first=Marcus
|translator-link=Marcus Dods (theologian born 1834)
|wslink=Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Series I/Volume II/City of God/Book XVIII/Chapter 3 
|work=Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers
|title=City of God, bk 18, ch 3
|series=1st series
|volume=II
|year=1886 
|orig-date=426 
|publisher=Christian Literature
|location=Buffalo NY 
|oclc=1084830718
|pages=362-363}}</ref> He was one of [[River gods (Greek mythology)|the three thousand sons]] of [[Oceanus]] and [[Tethys (mythology)|Tethys]]. The [[Inachos (river)|Inachus River]], a river in eastern [[Peloponnese]], is named after him.<ref name=":1">[[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+2.1.1&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:book=0:chapter=0&highlight=Inachus 2.1.1]</ref><ref>[[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Paus.+8.6.6&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0160:book=0:chapter=0&highlight=Inachus 8.6.6]</ref>