Greco-Roman river deities

River gods consoling Peneus for the Loss of his Daughter, Daphne

The Potamoi

The Potamoi (Singular: Potamos anglicized as Potami and Potamuses singular Potamus) are Greek river gods, sons of Oceanus and Tethys. Their daughters and female counterpart are the Potamides.

Their Roman counterparts are Amnes (Singular Amnis), also known as Flumina (Singular: Flumen).

Potamoi

Some notable Potamoi are

• Achelous, the chief of the river gods of Greece
• Acheron, whose river leads to Hades ' underground realm
• Alpheus, who pursued the nymph Arethousa, who prayed to Artemis to be turned into a spring, whose waters now mix with Alpheos'
• Asopus, whose daughters were carried away by the gods (notably Aegina, seduced by Zeus and grandmother of Achilles and Ajax )
• Axius, who waters the Paeonian plain
• Borysthenes, who waters the lands of the Scythians, now under the name Dniepr
• Cebren, father of Oenone, the first wife of Paris
• Chremetes, father of Queen Telephassa of Tyre^{[Citation needed]}

• Cocytus, whose waters feed the lakes of Hades' realm
• Enipeus, who was loved by Tyro
• Eridanus, who cooled Phaethon when he fell from Helios ' chariot
• Euphrates, who waters the Fertile Crescent
• Eurotas, the first king of Lacadaemon (Sparta)
• Ganges, who waters the Indian subcontinent
• Haliacmon, whose riverbed forms the border between Thessaly and Macedon
• Hydaspes, who stood against Dionysus in his war against the Indians
• Inachus, who fathered Io and is thus the ancestor of all Greeks
• Indus, who waters the Indian subcontinent
• Istros, who waters Europe and Scythia, with the name Danube
• Maeander, who judges the lawsuits of Asia Minor
• Nilus, the river god of the Nile
• Pactolus, whose waters bathed King Midas, and relieved him of the golden curse
• Peneus, the river god of Thessaly and father of Daphne
• Pyriphlegethon, whose fiery, lava-like waters mix with the river Styx in Hades' kingdom
• Scamander and
• Simoeis, rivers in Asia Minor who sided with Troy during the Trojan War and battled Hephaestus
• Strymon, the Thracian river god and father of King Rhesus
• Tanais, who is now called the Don
• Tigris, who waters the Fertile Crescent

River goddess

Some notable Potamides are

• Bolbe
• Gyge
• Lethe, the river of forgetfulness in Hades' realm
• Neda
• Styx