The river Eridanos (or Eridanus) is a river of Hades in Greek mythology, whose name has been adopted by geologists and paleogeographers to describe the real river that existed between 40 million to 700 thousand years ago, flowing from Lapland to the North Sea: for that river, see Eridanos (geology). "Riverine" redirects here For the use of that term in Maritime geography, see there Hades (from Greek, Hadēs, originally, Haidēs or, Aidēs, probably from Indo-European *n̥-wid- 'unseen' refers both to the ancient Greek mythology is the body of stories belonging to the ancient Greeks concerning their gods and Heroes the nature of the world and the origins and significance A geologist is a contributor to the Science of Geology, studying the physical structure and processes of the Earth and planets of the solar system Palaeogeography (sometimes spelled paleogeography) is the study of what the Geography was in times past The North Sea is a marginal, Epeiric sea of the Atlantic Ocean on the European Continental shelf. The name Eridanos, derived from the ancient Greek Eridanos, was given by geologists to a river which flowed where the Baltic Sea is now (Overeem et al
The Eridanos is mentioned in Greek writings as a river in northern Europe rich in amber. The term ancient Greece refers to the period of Greek history lasting from the Greek Dark Ages ca Amber is Fossil tree Resin, which is appreciated for its color and beauty [1] There have been various guesses at which real river was the Eridanos: these include the Po in north Italy, and the Nile and the Danube. The name Eridanos, derived from the ancient Greek Eridanos, was given by geologists to a river which flowed where the Baltic Sea is now (Overeem et al The Po ( Latin: Padus, Po Ligurian: Bo, Greek: Eridanus) is a river that flows 652 km(405 miles (682 km by considering The Nile (النيل, Ancient Egyptian iteru or Ḥ'pī, Coptic piaro or phiaro) is a major north-flowing River The Danube (In Donau from earlier Danuvius, Celtic *dānu, meaning "to flow run" Slovak and Polish Dunaj Another, lesser Eridanos, a small river near Athens has been rediscovered in modern times, with the excavations for construction of the Athens Metro. Eridanos (Ηριδανός was the small stream that flowed from a source in the foothills of the Lykabettos, through the Agora of Ancient Athens The Athens Metro is the underground Public transport system of Athens, Greece, constructed by the Attiko Metro company ( Αττικό
Hesiod, in Theogony, calls it “deep-eddying Eridanos” in his list of rivers, the offspring of Tethys. Hesiod ( Greek: Hesiodos) was an early Greek Poet and Rhapsode, who presumably lived around 700 BCE Theogony ( Greek: Θεογονία theogonia = the birth of God(s is a Poem by Hesiod describing the origins and genealogies In Classical Greek mythology, Tethys (Greek Τηθύς) daughter of Uranus and Gaia ( Hesiod, Theogony lines In Dionysiaca, the vast monster Typhon boasts that he will bathe in “starry Eridanus. Theophanes Nonnus was a Byzantine physician For the saint of this name see Saint Nonnus. In Greek mythology, Typhon ( Ancient Greek:, Tuphōn) also Typheus / Typhoeus ( Tuphōeus) Typhaon ( ” Herodotus (III, 115) points out that the word Eridanos is essentially Greek in character, and surmises that consequently the river supposed to run around the world is probably a Greek invention. Herodotus of Halicarnassus ( Greek: Hēródotos Halikarnāsseús) was a Greek Historian who lived in the 5th century BC ( 484 BC&ndash He associated it with the river Po, because the Po was located near the end of the Amber Trail. The Po ( Latin: Padus, Po Ligurian: Bo, Greek: Eridanus) is a river that flows 652 km(405 miles (682 km by considering The Amber Road was an ancient Trade route for the transfer of Amber. According to Apollonius of Rhodes[2] and Ovid,[3] amber originated from the tears of the Heliades, encased in poplars as dryads, shed when their brother, Phaeton, died and fell from the sky, struck by Jove's thunderbolt, and tumbled into the Eridanos, where "to this very day the marsh exhales a heavy vapour which rises from his smouldering wound; no bird can stretch out its fragile wings to fly over that water, but in mid-flight it falls dead in the flames;"[4] “along the green banks of the river Eridanos,” Cygnus mourned him— Ovid told— and was transformed into a swan. Publius Ovidius Naso ( March 20, 43 BC – 17 AD was a Roman poet known to the English -speaking world as Ovid who wrote on many topics including Amber is Fossil tree Resin, which is appreciated for its color and beauty "Helia" redirects here For the Genus of noctuid Moths see Helia (moth In Greek mythology, the Populus is a genus of between 25–35 species of Flowering plants in the family Salicaceae, native to most of the Northern Hemisphere. The DRYAD Numeral Cipher/Authentication System (KTC 1400 D is a simple paper Cryptographic system currently in use by the U In Greek mythology, Phaëton or Phaethon (ˈfeɪətn or /ˈfeɪəθən/ (Φαέθων "shining" was the son of Helios ( Phoebus There in the far west, Heracles asked the river nymphs of Eridanos to help him locate the Garden of the Hesperides. In Greek mythology, Heracles or Herakles ("glory of Hera " or In Greek mythology, the Hesperides ( Greek:) are Nymphs who tend a blissful garden in a far western corner of the world located near the Atlas mountains
Strabo disregards such mythmaking:
- “One must put aside many of the mythical or false accounts such as those of Phaethon and of the Heliades changed into black poplars near the Eridanos (a river that does not exist anywhere on earth, although it is said to be near the Po), and of the Islands of Amber that lie off the Po, and of the guinea-fowl on them, because none of these exist in this area. Strabo ( Greek: Στράβων 63/64 BC – ca AD 24 was a Greek historian, geographer and philosopher. ”[5]
Eridanus (“the river”) was considered one of the rivers of Hades by Virgil in his Aeneid VI, 659. Hades (from Greek, Hadēs, originally, Haidēs or, Aidēs, probably from Indo-European *n̥-wid- 'unseen' refers both to the ancient Publius Vergilius Maro ( October 15, 70 BCE &ndash September 21, 19 BCE later called Virgilius, and known in English as Virgil or For the group of nine Ancient Egyptian deities see Ennead. The Aeneid (əˈniːɪd in
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- ^ "the holy isle of Elektris", named for elektron, "amber", off the mouth of the Eridanos, was reached by the Argonauts, who were fleeing from the Colchians, in Apollonius of Rhodes' Argonautica, Book IV; their return trip from Colchis, in which they passed "the farthest reaches of the stream Eridanos" (iv. Eridanus (ɪˈɹɪdənəs the ancient Greek name for the Po River, is the sixth largest of the 88 modern Constellations It was also one of Ptolemy In ancient Geography, Colchis or Kolchis ( Georgian and Laz: კოლხეთი k'olxeti; Greek:, Kolchís The Argonautica ( Greek:) is a Greek Epic poem written by Apollonius Rhodius in the 3rd century BCE. 597), cannot be made to coincide with actual geography.
- ^ Argonautica, iv. 597ff.
- ^ Ovid, Metamorphoses II, 367-380. Publius Ovidius Naso ( March 20, 43 BC – 17 AD was a Roman poet known to the English -speaking world as Ovid who wrote on many topics including
- ^ Apollonius, iv. 602ff.
- ^ Strabo, Geography v,1,9.
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