Ladon

A river god of Arcadia, is described as a son of Oceanus and Tethys, and as the husband of Stymphalis, by whom he became the father of Daphne and Metope.

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References

Sources

  • Diodorus Siculus. Historical Library iv, 72.
  • Hesiod. Theogony, 344.
  • Pausanias. Description of Greece viii, 20.1; x, 7, in fin.
  • Scholiast on Pindar's Olympian Odes vi, 143.
  • 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.