Melaeno mother ofDelphus byApollo, though he also gives two other accounts of Delphus' mother.[4]
However, one of these alternate versions is thatThyia daughter of the aboriginalCastalius was Delphus' mother, almost certainly the same Thyia whomHerodotus claims was daughter of Cephissus to whom the Delphians built an altar to the winds and who was eponym of theThyiades.[5]
A mortal son of Cephissus wasEteocles byEuippe, daughter ofLeucon, son ofAthamas. This Euippe later on became the wife of KingAndreus ofOrchomenus and Eteocles inherited Andreus' throne.[6] Eteocles or Eteoclus, son of Cephissus, was confirmed fromHesiod's and Pindar's accounts.[7] He was the first made offering to theCharites by the side of the river Cephissus.
This Cephisus may also be the Argive river-god of the same name who together with two other river-gods,Inachus andAsterion, judged that the land of Argolis belonged to Hera instead of Poseidon. Thus, the sea god made their waters disappear and for this reason neither of the three rivers provide water to the land except after rain.[10] In an obscure myth, Cephissus greatly lamented his grandson being turned into a seal by Apollo.[11]
Pindar,The Odes of Pindar including the Principal Fragments with an Introduction and an English Translation by Sir John Sandys, Litt.D., FBA. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1937.Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
Stephanus of Byzantium,Stephani Byzantii Ethnicorum quae supersunt, edited by August Meineike (1790–1870), published 1849. A few entries from this important ancient handbook of place names have been translated by Brady Kiesling.Online version at the Topos Text Project.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in thepublic domain: Schmitz, Leonhard (1870). "Cephissus". InSmith, William (ed.).Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1. p. 671..jpg)
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