Amphrysus

The Amphrysus (Ancient Greek: Ἄμφρυσος - Amphrysos) was a river in ancient Thessaly, flowing from Mount Othrys to the Pagasetic Gulf.[1] According to Strabo, it flowed close to the walls of the town Halos.[2]

In Callimachus' "Hymn to Apollo" (48) Apollo tends Admetus' herds by the Amphryssos during his punishment for killing the Cyclopes. In the Argonautica (I.53) of Apollonius of Rhodes Eupolemeia bore the Argonaut Aethalides to Hermes near the Amphryssos.

References

  1. ↑  Smith, William, ed. (1854). "Amphrysus". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. 1. London: John Murray. p. 127.
  2. ↑ Strabo, Geographica, 9.5.9

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