Editing Inachus (section)

== Family ==
Various ancient authors describe Inachus as being one of the river gods born of [[Titan (mythology)|Titans]] [[Oceanus]] and [[Tethys (mythology)|Tethys]],<ref>[[Dionysius of Halicarnassus]], [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Dionysius_of_Halicarnassus/1B*.html 1.25.4.]; 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]; [[Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]], ''Fabulae'' [http://topostext.org/work.php?work_id=206#124 Preface]; Pseudo-[[Plutarch]], ''De fluviis'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:2008.01.0400:chapter=18&highlight=inachus 18]</ref> and thus to the Greeks, was part of the [[Twelve Olympians|pre-Olympian]] or "[[Pelasgian]]" mythic landscape.{{citation needed|date=October 2024}} In Greek iconography, [[Walter Burkert]] notes,<ref>Burkert, ''Greek Religion'', 1985: "Nature deities" 3.3, p.175</ref> the [[Achelous|rivers are represented in the form of a bull with a human head or face]]. Although these myths have been passed down since then, one of the most remarkable findings of modern archaeology was the monuments and remains showing that Argos had indeed been an ancient civilization alongside Egypt and Babylonia.<ref>{{cite book |last=Hall |first=H(arry) R(eginald) |date=1916 |title=Ancient History of the Near East: from the Earliest Times to the Battle of Salamis |location=London |publisher=Methuen |pages=4–6 |quote=[T]he oldest culture of Greece really belongs to the Mediterranean basin.... The entry of Greece into the ranks of the ancient civilizations of the Near East as the fellows of Egypt or Babylon is one of the most striking results of modern archaeological discovery.}}</ref>

Inachus had many children, the chief of whom were his two sons, [[Phoroneus]] and [[Aegialeus (king of Sicyon)|Aegialeus]] or [[Phegeus]],<ref name=":0" /> and his two daughters, [[Io (mythology)|Io]] and [[Philodice (mythology)|Philodice]],<ref>[[William Smith (lexicographer)|William Smith]]. ''[[Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology|A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology]] s.v. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0104%3Aalphabetic+letter%3DP%3Aentry+group%3D24%3Aentry%3Dphilodice-bio-1 Philodice]''. London. John Murray (1848).</ref> wife of [[Leucippus (mythology)|Leucippus]].<ref>[[Scholia]] ad [[Euripides]], ''[[Orestes (play)|Orestes]]'' 920 & 1239; [[Tzetzes]] ad [[Lycophron]], [https://topostext.org/work/860#511 511]</ref>{{AI-generated source|date=November 2024}} The mother of these children was variously described in the sources, either an [[Oceanid]] named [[Melia (consort of Inachus)|Melia]], called the mother of Phoroneus and Aegialeus<ref name=":1" /> (or Phegeus<ref>Scholia ad Euripides, ''Orestes'' [https://archive.org/details/scholiaineuripi00schwgoog/page/n229/mode/1up?view=theater 932] recounted that [[Phegeus]] and [[Aegialeus (King of Sicyon)|Aegialeus]] were two different persons— Phegeus being the son of Inachus and [[Melia (consort of Inachus)|Melia]] while Aegialeus, the son of [[Phoroneus]] and [[Peitho]]</ref>), or another Oceanid named [[Argia (mythology)|Argia]], called the mother of Phoroneus and Io.<ref>Hyginus, ''Fabulae'' [http://topostext.org/work.php?work_id=206#124 124], [http://topostext.org/work.php?work_id=206#143 143], [http://topostext.org/work.php?work_id=206#145 145] & [http://topostext.org/work.php?work_id=206#155 155]</ref> Io is sometimes confused as the daughter of Inachus and Melia but she is the daughter of Inachus alone.<ref>[[Aeschylus]], ''[[Prometheus Bound]]'' [http://topostext.org/work.php?work_id=15#655 575, 655 & 700]'';'' [[Ammianus Marcellinus]], ''History'' [http://topostext.org/work.php?work_id=493#22.8.13 22.8.13]'';'' [[Augustine of Hippo|Augustine]], ''[[The City of God (book)|City of God]]'' [http://topostext.org/work.php?work_id=235#18.3 18.3]'';'' [[Bacchylides]], ''[[Dithyramb]]s'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0064:book=Dith:poem=19&highlight=inachus 5.01]'';'' [[Diodorus Siculus]], [http://topostext.org/work.php?work_id=133#5.60.3 3.74.1 & 5.60.3]; [[Euripides]], ''[[The Suppliants (Euripides)|Suppliants]]'' [http://topostext.org/work.php?work_id=39#332 566]; [[Eusebius]], ''[[Praeparatio evangelica|Preparation of the Gospels]]'' [http://topostext.org/work.php?work_id=230#10.9.17 10.9.19]; [[Herodotus]], [http://topostext.org/work.php?work_id=22#1.1 1.1.1]'';'' [[Lactantius]], ''Divine Institutes'' [http://topostext.org/work.php?work_id=543#1.11 1.11]'';'' [[Ovid]], ''[[Fasti (poem)|Fasti]]'' [http://topostext.org/work.php?work_id=143#1.1441 1.1441]; ''[[Metamorphoses]]'' [http://topostext.org/work.php?work_id=141#4.706 1.567]; ''[[Heroides]]'' [http://www.theoi.com/Text/OvidHeroides3.html#14 14.105]'';'' [[Plutarch]], ''De Herodoti malignitate'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:2008.01.0352:section=11&highlight=inachus 11]'';'' [[Sophocles]]'', [[Electra (Sophocles play)|Electra]]'' [http://topostext.org/work.php?work_id=30#1 1] [[Callimachus]], ''Hymn to Artemis'' [http://topostext.org/work.php?work_id=122#206 3.248]'';'' [[Nicaenetus of Samos|Nicaenetus]], ''Lyrcus'' fr.'';'' [[Claudius Aelianus|Aelian]], ''On Animals'' 11.10; [[Gaius Valerius Flaccus|Valerius Flaccus]], [http://www.theoi.com/Text/ValeriusFlaccus4.html 4.374-375] [[Propertius]], ''Elegies'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Prop.+1.3&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0067 1.3]'';'' [[Suetonius]]'', Otho'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0132:life=otho:chapter=12&highlight=inachus 12]; ''[[Suda]]'' s.v. ''[http://topostext.org/work.php?work_id=240 Io];'' [[Virgil]], ''[[Georgics]]'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0058:book=3:card=138&highlight=inachus 3.138]''; [[Aeneid]]'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Verg.+A.+7.791&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0054 7.791]''; Commentary on the Heroides of Ovid'' s.v. ''Hypermnestra to Lynceus'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0061:poem=14&highlight=inachus 14]'';'' [[Ammianus Marcellinus]], ''Rerum Gestarum'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:2007.01.0082:book=22:chapter=8&highlight=inachus#note18 22.13]; Apollodorus, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+2.1.3&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:book=0:chapter=0&highlight=Inachus 2.1.3], as what [[Castor of Rhodes|Castor]] and many tragedians believed</ref> Io was born from Inachus' mouth.{{Citation needed|date=May 2017}} Aside from the '''Inachians''' of whom he was simply the back-formed [[eponym]], his other children include [[Mycene (mythology)|Mycene]],<ref>[[Hesiod]], ''The Great Eoiae'' [http://topostext.org/work.php?work_id=7#GE.F9 fr. 9]; Pausanias, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Paus.+2.16.4&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0160:book=0:chapter=0&highlight=Inachus 2.16.4]</ref> the eponym of [[Mycenae]], the spring nymph [[Amymone]], [[Messeis]], [[Hyperia (mythology)|Hyperia]],<ref>Valerius Flaccus, [http://www.theoi.com/Text/ValeriusFlaccus4.html 4.374-375]</ref> [[Themisto (mythology)|Themisto]] (mother of [[Arcas]] by [[Zeus]]).<ref>[[Eustathius of Thessalonica|Eustathius]] ad [[Homer]], ''[[Iliad]]'' [[iarchive:commentariiadho01eust/page/242/mode/1up|p. 300]]; [[Stephanus of Byzantium]], s.v.  ''[https://topostext.org/work/241#A119.18 Arcadia (Ἀρκαδία)];'' [[Clementine literature|Pseudo-Clement]], ''Recognitions'' 10.21</ref> [[Argus Panoptes]] was also called the son of Inachus as what [[Asclepiades of Tragilus|Asclepiades]] also asserted.<ref>Apollodorus, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+2.1.3&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:book=0:chapter=0&highlight=Inachus 2.1.3]</ref>

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