In the river Spercheus Achilles "nursed" his hair, a lock of which he set in the hands of his dead comrade Patroclus (Il. 23.141-142).
According to Homer, he was the son of the river-god Spercheius by Polydora, the daughter of Peleus (Il. 16.173).
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A river-god and father of Menesthius, that Homer calls "heaven-fed river" (Il. 16.174) and "tireless" (Il. 16.176).
Maliades(numphai), nymphs who were worshipped as the protectors of flocks and of fruit-trees. They are also called Melides or Epimelides. (Theocrit. i. 22, with Valck. note, xiii. 45; Eustath. ad Hom. p. 1963.) The same name is also given to the nymphs of the district of the Malians on the river Spercheius. (Soph. Philoct. 725.)
River, in Malis, near Thermopylae, hair of Achilles vowed to, Gauls pass the.
Total results on 25/4/2001: 13 for Spercheus, 44 for Spercheius, 42 for Spercheios, 9 for Sperchius, 2 for Sperchios.
(Spercheios). Now Elladha; a river in the south of Thessaly, which rises in Mount Tymphrestus, runs in an easterly direction through the territory of the Aenianes and through the district Malis, and falls into the innermost corner of the Sinus Maliacus. As a river-god, Spercheus is a son of Oceanus and Gaea, and the father of Menesthius by Polydora, the daughter of Peleus.
This text is cited Oct 2002 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
Spercheius (Spercheios: Elladha), a river in the S. of Thessaly, rising in Mount Tymphrestus (Strab. ix. p. 433), and flowing into the Maliac gulf. The Dryopes and Aenianes dwelt in the upper part of its course till it entered the plain of Malis, through which it flowed to the sea. In ancient times it joined the sea at Anticyra; and the rivers Dyras, Melas, and Asopus fell separately into the sea to the S. of the Spercheius. (Herod. vii. 198.) But the Spercheius has changed its course, and now falls into the sea much further south, about a mile from Thermopylae. The Dyras and Melas now unite their streams, and fall into the Spercheius, as does also the Asopus. Spercheius is celebrated in mythology as a river-god, and is mentioned in connection with Achilles. (Hom. Il. xvii. 142.) Its name also frequently occurs in the other poets. (Aesch. Pers. 486; Sophocl. Phil. 722; Virg. Georg. ii. 485; Lucan vi.366.) (Leake, Northern Greece, vol. ii. pp. 8, 11, 15.)
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited September 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
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