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== Family == The nymph [[Creusa (Naiad)|Creusa]] bore him one son, [[Hypseus]], who was King of the [[Lapiths]],<ref>Diodorus Siculus, [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/4D*.html#69.1 4.69.1]; [[Pindar]], ''Pythian Odes'' 9</ref> and three daughters, [[Menippe (Greek mythology)|Menippe]] (mother of [[Phrastor]] by [[Pelasgus]]),<ref>[[Dionysius of Halicarnassus]], ''Antiquitates Romanae'' 1.28</ref> [[Daphne]]<ref>[[Ovid]], ''[[Metamorphoses]]'' 1.452; [[Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]], ''Fabulae'' [https://topostext.org/work/216#203 203]</ref> and [[Stilbe]].<ref name="Diodorus Siculus, Library of History, 4. 69. 1">Diodorus Siculus, [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/4D*.html#69.1 4.69.1]</ref> Some sources state that he was the father of [[Cyrene (mythology)|Cyrene]],<ref>[[Virgil]], ''[[Georgics]]'' 4.320; Hyginus, ''Fabulae'' [https://topostext.org/work/216#161 161]</ref> alternately known as his granddaughter through Hypseus. Daphne, in an [[Arcadia (ancient region)|Arcadia]]n version of the myth, was instead the daughter of the river god [[Ladon (river)#Mythology|Ladon]].<ref>[[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], 10.7.8; [[Statius]], ''Thebaid'' 4.289; [[Nonnus]], ''[[Dionysiaca]]'' 42.386</ref> Peneus also had a son [[Atrax (mythology)|Atrax]] with [[Bura (mythology)|Bura]],<ref>[[Stephanus of Byzantium]], s.v. ''Atrax''</ref> and [[Andreus]] with an unknown consort.<ref>Pausanias, 9.34.6</ref> Tricce (or Tricca), eponym of the city [[Tricca]], was mentioned as his daughter.<ref>Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. ''Trikkฤ''</ref> In later accounts, Peneus was credited to be the father of [[Chrysogeneia|Chrysogenia]] who consorted with [[Zeus]] and became the mother of [[Thissaeus]].<ref name=":3">[[Pseudo-Clement]], ''[[Clementine Recognitions|Recognitions]]'' 10.21-23</ref> Meanwhile, his daughter Astabe coupled with [[Hermes]] and became the parents of [[Astacus (mythology)|Astacus]], father of Iocles, father of [[Hipponous]].<ref>[[Scholia]] on [[Euripides]], ''[[Phoenician Women]]'' 133</ref> According to [[Hellanicus of Lesbos|Hellanicus]], Peneus was the father of [[Iphis (mythology)|Iphis]], mother of [[Salmoneus]] by [[Aeolus (son of Hellen)|Aeolus]] the son of [[Hellen]].<ref>[[Hellanicus of Lesbos|Hellanicus]] in scholia on [[Plato]], ''[[Symposium (Plato)|Symposium]]'' 208 (p. 376)</ref>
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