Crossword clues for peneus
Wikipedia
Eros shot Apollo with one of his arrows, causing him to fall in love with Daphne. It was Eros's plan that Daphne would scorn Apollo because Eros was angry that Apollo had made fun of his archery skills. Eros also claimed to be irritated by Apollo's singing. Daphne prayed to the river god Peneus to help her. He changed her into a laurel tree, which later became sacred to Apollo - see Apollo and Daphne.
Peneus or Pineios (Greek: Πηνειός) may refer to:
- Peneus, a river god in Greek mythology
- Pineios (Thessaly), a river in Thessaly, Greece
- Pineios (Peloponnese), a river in Peloponnese, Greece
Usage examples of "peneus".
River Peneus, and listen to the ripple of the water as it flowed among the reeds or over the shining pebbles.
She passed through a shady wood and climbed a hill, from the top of which she could see Father Peneus lying white and clear and smiling in the valley below.
Approached in love by the god Apollo, the virgin was terrified, cried for help to her father, the river-god Peneus, and he turned her into a tree.
When they reached the Peneus River inside the Tempe Pass, they encountered a seagoing barge whose captain, ferrying a load of homegrown vegetables to the market in Dium, offered to take the four fugitives as far as Dium.
Dium, a few miles up the coast from the mouth of the Peneus River, the four had another stroke of luck.
In Dium, a few miles up the coast from the mouth of the Peneus River, the four had another stroke of luck.
Phoebus loved the Nymph Daphne whom he met by the river Peneus in the vale of Tempe.
He embarked on board a merchant-ship at the mouth of the River Peneus, and first sailed to Lesbos, where he took on board his wife Cornelia, and from thence made for Cyprus.
Thrace, and wind through the defiles, and over the mountains of Macedonia, coast the clear waves of the Peneus, cross the Larissean plain, pass the straits of Thermopylae, and ascending in succession Oeta and Parnassus, descend to the fertile plain of Athens.
Olympus and Ossa is the Vale of Tempe, where the Peneus, breaking through a narrow gorge fringed with the sacred laurel, reaches the gulf, south of ancient Heracleum.
And thou, O sun, who even now must be making haste to saddle thy steeds, and climb the heavens, and see my lady, I pray thee when thou seest her to greet her on my behalf, but be thou certain not to kiss her face when thou seest and greetest her, for then I shall be more envious of thee than thou wert of that fleet ingrate who madest thee to perspire and race across the plains of Thessaly or along the banks of the Peneus, for I do not remember precisely where thou rannest then so envious and enamored.
Syrian poets had transported the amorous tale from the banks of the Peneus to those of the Orontes.