Editing Enipeus (deity)

{{Short description|Ancient Greek river god}}
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{{other uses|Enipeus (disambiguation)}}
'''Enipeus''', in [[ancient Greece]], was a [[River gods (Greek mythology)|river god]]. Enipeus was loved by a mortal woman named [[Tyro]], who was married to a mortal man named [[Cretheus]].<ref name="grant">{{Cite book |last=Grant |first=Michael |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/436844033 |title=Who's who in classical mythology |date=2002 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-84972-010-6 |location=London |pages=534 |chapter=Tyro |oclc=436844033}}</ref> [[Poseidon]], filled with lust for [[Tyro]], disguised himself as Enipeus and from their union was born [[Pelias]] and [[Neleus]], twin boys.<ref name="oxford">{{Cite encyclopedia |title=Enipeus (Ἐνιπεύς) |encyclopedia=The Oxford Classical Dictionary |location=Oxford |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/779530090 |last=Rose |first=Herbert Jennings |year=2012 |edition=Fourth |isbn=978-0-19-954556-8 |oclc=779530090}}</ref><ref>{{Cite encyclopedia |title=Enipeus |encyclopedia=The Homer Encyclopedia |publisher=Blackwell Publishing Ltd |location=Oxford, UK |url=http://doi.wiley.com/10.1002/9781444350302 |date=6 January 2012 |language=en |doi=10.1002/9781444350302 |isbn=978-1-4051-7768-9|editor-last1=Finkelberg |editor-first1=Margalit }}</ref> The River Enipeus (now [[Enipeas (Thessaly)|Enipeas]]) is located in [[Thessaly]], and was the site of the [[Battle of Cynoscephalae]] and the [[Battle of Pharsalus]].<ref name="brill">{{Cite encyclopedia |title=Enipeus |encyclopedia=Brill's New Pauly : encyclopaedia of the ancient world. Antiquity |publisher=Brill |location=Leiden |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/54952013 |last1=Kramolisch |first1=Herwig |date=2002–2010 |isbn=90-04-12258-3 |oclc=54952013 |last2=Lienau |first2=Cay}}</ref>

==References==
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==See also==
* [[List of water deities]]

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[[Category:River gods in Greek mythology]]
[[Category:Personifications of rivers]]