Inachos (river)

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Inachos (Greek Ίναχος ) is a river in the Greek countryside Argolis.

The Inachos springs on the mountain Artemision, flows to the city of Argos over to culminate in Nea Kios in the Gulf of Argolis. The river leads since antiquity only in winter after rainfall water. Many myths surround the drying up of the sources. So Inachos was asked which God, Hera or Poseidon, should include his country. Since he decided to Hera, Poseidon had dried up the source of the river. Various traditions set the drying up of the sources in the time of Phoroneus or Gelanor.

Strabo reported that the Inachos on the Lyrkeus, the Artemision neighboring mountain, sprang from, but this is wrong.

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  • Libraries of Apollodorus, 2, 1; 2, 13
  • Pausanias, traveling in Greece, 2, 15, 4
  • Strabo, Geographica, 370
  • River in Europe
  • River in Greece
  • Water system Aegean Sea
Argolic Gulf Town
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