Meander

A son of Oceanus and Tethys, and the god of the winding river Maeander in Phrygia. He was the father of Cyanea and Caunus, who is hence called Maeandrius.

Another daughter is said to have been Samia.1

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References

Notes

  1. Periegesis Hellados vii, 4.1

Sources

  • Hesiod. Theogony, 339.
  • Ovid. Metamorphoses ix, 450, 473.
  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.

This article incorporates text from Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1870) by William Smith, which is in the public domain.