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As mythological figures the Boeotian river Asopus and the Phliasian river Asopus are much confounded. They are duplicated a second time as supposed mortal kings who gave their names to the corresponding rivers. Indeed, logically, since the children fathered by gods on various daughters of either Boeotian or Phliasian Asopus were mortal in thse tales, then the daughters themselves must have been mortal, and therefore either the mother of these daughters (often given as MetopeIn classical architecture, a metope is the space between two triglyphs of a Doric frieze. Metopes were often decorated with carvings; the most famous example is the 92 metopes of the frieze of the Parthenon marbles depicting the battle between the Centaur daughter of river LadonLadon is the hundred-headed dragon that guarded the garden of the Hesperides in Greek mythology. He is variously described as the offspring of Phorcys or of Typhon and Echidna. It was said that his heads spoke with a multitude of voices in many languages.) or their father Asopus must have been mortal, or both of them.
ApollodorusApollodorus was a popular name in the ancient world. Apollodorus an Athenian painter, flourished at the end of the 5th century B. He is said to have introduced great improvements in perspective and chiaroscuro. Apollodorus of Athens, an Athenian grammaria (3.12.6) informs that the river Asopus was a son of OceanusOceanos Oceanos was the name of a Greek cruise ship that sank off of the coast of South Africa in 1991. No lives were lost, but the Captain and crew left before many of the passengers. Oceanus or Okeanos refers to the ocean, which the Greeks and Romans re and TethysIn Greek mythology, Tethys was a Titaness and sea goddess who was both sister and wife of Oceanus. She was mother of the chief rivers of the universe, such as the Nile, the Alpheus, the Maeander, and about three thousand daughters called the Oceanids. or according to AcusilausAcusilaus or Akousilaos of Argos, son of Cabas or Scabras, was a Greek historian and mythographer who flourished around 500 BC but whose work survives only in fragments and summaries of individual points. It is not known whether Acusilaus was of Peloponne of PoseidonThis article is about the Greek god. See also: Poseidon missile; and Poseidon drowning detection system''. Andrea Doria as Neptune by Agnolo Bronzino: a potent allegory of Genoa's hegemony in the Tyrrhenian Sea In Greek Mythology, Poseidon was the god of by Pero (otherwise unknown to us) or according to yet others of Zeus by Eurynome, not making it clear whether he knows there is more than one river named Asopus.