Spercheus
In
Greek mythology
,
Spercheus
(also
Sperchius
,
Spercheius
,
Spercheios
,
Sperkheios
) was the name of and the god of a river in
Thessaly
. According to
Antoninus Liberalis
(22) the nymphs of Mount
Othrys
were daughters of Spercheus by
Deino
, whether the same Deino elsewhere named as one of the
Graeae
or another is not said. Liberalis also says that King
Dryops
of
Oeta
was son of Spercheus by
Polydora
daughter of
Danaus
, the same Dryops who was father of
Dryope
. In
Homer
's
Iliad
, Spercheus is father of
Menesthius
, one of
Achilles
' commanders, by Achilles' half-sister
Polydora
. The river begins in the
Eurytania
prefecture
in the
Panaitoloko
mountains and flows northeast from near
Megalo Chorio
and into
Karpenisi
and flows within
GR-38
and through
Agios Georgios Tymfistos
south of the
Tymfistos
and into the modern prefecture of
Fthiotis
. The river flows into a plain in the west-central part and into south of
Lamia
. The river flows into an area which was dominated by swamp and wetlands which much of the land became used for farming and empties tinto the
Malian Gulf
.
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