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Inachus (Oudgrieks: Ιναχος) is een van de Potamiden. Dat waren in de Griekse mythologie de kinderen van Oceanus en Tethys. Hij personifieerde de gelijknamige rivier in Griekenland. Inachus was getrouwd met Melia en was de vader van Phoroneus en Io. Hij was ook de stichter van de stad Argos, nadat hij de provincie Argolis na de zondvloed van Deucalion weer bewoonbaar had gemaakt.
Samen met Cephissus en Asterion kende Inachus de heerschappij over Argos toe aan de godin Hera, die zij verkozen boven Poseidon. Als gevolg liet Poseidon Argolis opdrogen en stroomde de Inachus alleen nog in de regentijd.
For modern scholars, Inachus is the most ancient god or hero of Argos. According to Robert Graves, he was a descendant of Iapetus while most modern mythologists understand Inachus as one of the river gods, all sons of Titans Oceanus and Tethys and thus to the Greeks, part of the pre-Olympian or "Pelasgian" mythic landscape. In Greek iconography, Walter Burkert notes, the rivers are represented in the form of a bull with a human head or face. Although these myths have been passed down since then, one of the most remarkable findings of modern archaeology was the monuments and remains showing that Argos had indeed been an ancient civilization alongside Egypt and Babylonia.
As rivers are generally fertile, Inachus had many children, the chief of whom were his two sons, Phoroneus and Aegialeus or Phegeus, and his two daughters, Io and Philodice, wife of Leucippus. The mother of these children was variously described in the sources, either an Oceanid named Melia, called the mother of Phoroneus and Aegialeus, or another Oceanid named Argia, called the mother of Phoroneus and Io. Io is sometimes confused as the daughter of Inachus and Melia but she is the daughter of Inachus alone. Io was born from Inachus' mouth technically making her Inachus and Melia's daughter because she was born while Inachus was married to Melia. Aside from the Inachians of whom he was simply the back-formed eponym, his other children include Mycene, the eponym of Mycenae, the spring nymph Amymone, Messeis, Hyperia, Themisto (mother of Arcas by Zeus) and possibly Teledice. Argus Panoptes was also called the son of Inachus as what Asclepiades also asserted.
Mythologie waar Inachus bij hoort: Grieks
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Inachus is de personificatie van de Inachus (rivier).
Inachus is de echtgenoot van Melia.
Inachus is de vader van Io.
Inachus is de zoon van Oceanus en Tethys.
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Inachus is onderdeel van de Potamiden.