Editing Asopus (section)

===Mixed tales===
====Daughters of Asopus (Asopides)====
[[File:Pyxis of Zeus and Aigina.jpg|thumb|right|The abduction of Aegina, one of the daughters of Asopus, by Zeus. Attic red-figure [[pyxis]], c.470&ndash;460 BC.]]
We find first in [[Pindar]]'s odes<ref>[[Pindar]], ''Nemean Odes'' 8.6–12, ''Isthmian Odes'' 8.17–23, ''Paian'' 6.134–40</ref> the sisters, [[Aegina (mythology)|Aegina]] and [[List of mythological figures named Thebe|Thebe]], here the youngest daughters of Boeotian Asopus by Metope who came from [[Stymphalus (Arcadia)|Stymphalia]] in [[Arcadia (ancient region)|Arcadia]]. Both are abducted by the god Zeus, one carried to the island of [[Oenone]] later to be named ''Aegina'' and the other to [[Dirce]]'s water to be queen there.

[[Corinna]], Pindar's contemporary, in a damaged fragment, mentions nine daughters of Boeotian Asopus: [[Aegina (mythology)|Aegina]], [[List of mythological figures named Thebe|Thebe]], and [[Plataea (mythology)|Plataea]] abducted by Zeus; [[Corcyra (mythology)|Corcyra]], [[Salamis (mythology)|Salamis]], and [[Euboea (mythology)|Euboea]] abducted by [[Poseidon]]; [[Sinope (mythology)|Sinope]] and [[Thespia (mythology)|Thespia]] (who has been dealt with above) abducted by [[Apollo]]; and [[Tanagra (mythology)|Tanagra]] abducted by [[Hermes]]. Asopus cannot discover what has become of them until the seer Acraephen (otherwise unknown) tells him that the gods [[Eros (god)|Eros]] and [[Aphrodite]] persuaded the four gods to come secretly to his house and steal his nine daughters. He advises Asopus to yield to the immortals and cease grieving since he is father-in-law to gods. This hints that perhaps, for Corinna, Asopus himself is not a god. Asopus accepts Acraephen's advice.

Of these daughters, Thebe, Plataea, Thespia and Tanagra are properly Boeotian. Euboea is near Boeotia, but Salamis and Aegina are regions that would perhaps associate better with the Phliasian Asopus. Korkyra ([[Corfu]]) is definitely Corinthian rather than Boeotian. Sinope is surely the colony of Sinope on the Black Sea (founded from Miletus).

It is notable that tradition as it comes down to us does not record any children resulting from a union of gods with Thebe, Plataea, Thespia or Tanagra and only Diodorus<ref name=":0">Diodorus Siculus, [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/4D*.html#72.1 4.72.1]</ref> mentions the otherwise unknown sons [[Phaeax (mythology)|Phaiax]], son of Poseidon by Corcyra, and [[Syrus]] sprung from Apollo by Sinope and that this child of Sinope is opposed by a conflicting tradition that [[Sinope (mythology)|Sinope]] tricked Zeus, Apollo and [[Halys River|Halys]] and remained a virgin.

Later texts mostly indicate Zeus' abduction of Aegina, presented as a solitary abduction. Asopus is often clearly the Phliasian Asopus (so indicated by [[Pherecydes of Syros|Pherecydes]]) but not always so. Asopus chases after Zeus and his daughter until Zeus turns upon him and strikes him with a thunderbolt, whence ever after Asopus is lame and flows very slowly, a feature ascribed to both the Boeotian and Phliasian Asopus. In these tales Asopus discovers the truth about the abduction from [[Sisyphus]], King of [[Corinth]] in return for creating a spring on the [[Corinth]]ian [[Acropolis]]. This spring, according to Pausanias<ref>Pausanias, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Paus.+2.5.1&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0160:boo=0:chapter=0&highlight=Asopus 2.5.1]</ref> was behind the temple of [[Aphrodite]] and people said its water was the same as that of the spring [[Pirene (fountain)|Peirene]], the water in the city flowing from it underground.

Diodorus Siculus<ref name=":0" /> who, as mentioned, places his Asopus in Phlius, gives him twelve daughters. Diodorus' list omits the Plataea and Boeotia included by Corinna's list of nine daughters. But it introduces [[Chalcis (mythology)|Chalcis]] which was the chief city of Boeotia and may represent Boeotia. To make up the twelve Diodorus' list also adds [[Pirene (fountain)|Peirene]] (the famous spring in Corinth), [[Cleone (mythology)|Cleone]] (possible eponym of the small city of Cleonae on the road from Corinth to [[Argos, Peloponnese|Argos]] according to Pausanias),<ref>Pausanias, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Paus.2.15.1&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0160:boo=0:chapter=0&highlight=Asopus 2.15.1]</ref> [[Ornia (mythology)|Ornia]] (possible eponym of the small town of [[Orneai]] south of [[Phlius]]), and [[Asopis]]. But ''Asopis'' may mean ''Asopian'' and be an epithet for one of the other known daughters. [[Ovid]] in his poem ''[[Metamorphoses (poem)|Metamorphoses]]''<ref>[[Ovid]], ''[[Metamorphoses]]'' 6.113 & 7.615</ref> twice calls Aegina by the name ''Asopis''. Indeed, in his very next section Diodorus discusses Asopus' daughter [[Harpina]] who has been discussed above.

Apollodorus<ref>Apollodorus, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+3.12.6&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:boo=0:chapter=0&highlight=Asopus 3.12.6]</ref> claims Asopus had twenty daughters but he does not provide a list.

Pausanias<ref>Pausanias, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Paus.+2.5.2&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0160:boo=0:chapter=0&highlight=Asopus 2.5.2]</ref> mentions three supposed daughters of Phliasian Asopus named Corcyra, Aegina, and Thebe according to the Phliasians and notes additionally that the Thebans insist that this Thebe was daughter of the Boeotian Asopus. He mentions no dispute about the others which suggests that in his time the assignment of Aegina to the Phliasian Asopus was generally admitted.

Pausanias<ref name="ReferenceA"/> also describes a group sculpture in the sanctuary of [[Hippodamia (mythology)|Hippodamia]] at [[Olympia, Greece|Olympia]] donated by the Phliasians. It included Nemea, Zeus seizing Aegina, [[Harpina]], Corcyra, Thebe, and Asopus himself. It seems the Phliasians were insistent that Thebe belonged to their Asopus.

According to [[Pherecydes of Athens|Pherecydes]], Asopus also fathered [[Philyra (mythology)|Philyra]] who became the mother of [[Hypseus]] by [[Peneus]].<ref>[[Scholia]] on Pindar, ''Pythian Ode'' 9.27a</ref> In some sources, [[Pronoe]] who was the mother of [[Phocus]] by [[Poseidon]] was a daughter of Asopus.<ref>Scholia on [[Homer]], ''[[Iliad]]'' 2.517</ref>

====Sons of Asopus====

Both Apollodrus and Diodorus also mention two sons of Asopus, the first named [[Ismenus]] and the second named [[Pelagon]] (by Apollodorus) or [[Pelasgus]] (by Diodorus). Nothing else has survived about this Pelagon. Of Ismenus, Diodorus states only that he emigrated to Boeotia and settled near the Boeotian river, which was afterwards named Ismenus from his name. Another son, Hypseus who fought in the war of the [[Seven against Thebes]] was killed by [[Capaneus]].<ref>[[Statius]], ''[[Thebaid (Latin poem)|Thebaid]]'' 7.310 ff & 723 ff</ref>

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<big>Comparative table of Asopus' family</big>
! rowspan="2" |Relation
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|''(Sch) on Hom.''
|''Acu.''
|''Cori.''
|''(Sch.) on Pin.''
|''(Sch.) on Bacc.''
|''Herod.''
|''Apollon.''
|''Dio.''
|''Stat.''
|''Apollod.''
|''Pau.''
|''Hyg.''
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| rowspan="4" |''Parentage''
|Poseidon and Pero
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|Poseidon and Celusa
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|Antiope
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|Pronoe
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|Aegina
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|Euboea
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|Corcyra
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|Plataea
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|Salamis
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|Sinope
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|Tanagra
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|Thebe
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|Thespia
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|Cleone
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|Harpina
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|Nemea
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|Philyra
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|Peirene
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|Oeroe
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|Ismenus
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|Chalcis
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|Asopis
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|Hypseus
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|Pelegon
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! colspan="2" |''Number of daughters mentioned''
!1
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!9
!7
!8
!3
!2
!13
!1
!3 + 17 others
!11
!1
!1
!1
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