Ladon (Rivergod)

Ladon was one of the myriad sons and river gods born of the union of Oceanus with Tethys.[1] He was married to Stymphalis, who is only mentioned in this context[2] and fathered the nymphs Daphne and Metope; the latter in turn married the river god Asopos.[3] Daphne, later transformed into a laurel tree in order to escape Apollon's love urges, is said to have fathered him with the earth. He was also considered the father of the nymph Thelpusa, from which the city of Thelphusa derives its name,[4] and the grandfather of Euandros[5], the legendary founder of the settlement on the Palatine Hill in Rome.

Literature

Otto Höfer: Ladon 1. In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (ed.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology. Volume 2,2, Leipzig 1897, column 1785f ).

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Hesiod, Theogony 344
Scholion to Pindar, Olympian Odes 6,143
Library of Apollodorus 3,12,6; Pausanias 8:20:1; Diodorus 4:72
Pausanias 8:25,2
Pausanias 8:43,2

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