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5 unusual facts about Ladon


Asopis

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  • Asopis, one of the daughters of the river-god Asopus and Metope, daughter of the river-god Ladon.

    Asopus

    Indeed, logically, since the children fathered by gods on various daughters of either Boeotian or Phliasian Asopus were mortal in these tales, then the daughters themselves must have been mortal, and therefore either the mother of these daughters (often given as Metope daughter of river Ladon) or their father Asopus must have been mortal, or both of them.

    Diodorus Siculus (4,72) similarly presents Asopus (here son of Oceanus and Tethys) as a settler in Phlius and wife of Metope daughter of Ladon, presumably here and elsewhere the Arcadian river Ladon.

    Ladon

    Ladon, Loiret, a commune in the Loiret département of France

    Peneus

    Daphne, in an Arcadian version of the myth, was, instead, the daughter of the river god Ladon.


    Phthia

    Phthia is also an area in the 1988 Nintendo game "The Battle of Olympus," a playable level where the dragon Ladon and the god Hephaestus make their homes.


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