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🌍 River Euphrates (Mesopotamia)

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  • Alternative name
    🌍 River Medos (alt. Euphrates)
    Information
    river in Mesopotamia
    Pleiades
    https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/912849
    Serves as entrance to
    🌍 the Underworld
    Said to flow from or into
    🌍 River Nile (Egypt)
    Place of death of
    👤 Medos (s. of Artaxerxes)👤 Euphrates
    Personification
    👤 Euphrates
    Eponym
    👤 Euphrates
    Encompasses
    🏛️ the Bridge of Dionysos (Euphrates) 🏛️ the Bridge over the Euphrates (Babylon)
    Related Entities
    🌍 River Nile (Egypt)👤 Dionysos (Olympian)🌍 the Plain of Zeugma👤 Medos (s. of Artaxerxes)👤 Cordyes👤 Euphrates🌍 the Land of the Ethiopians🌍 Libya (North Africa)🌍 River Euenos (Aitolia)🌍 River Alpheios (Peloponnese)🌍 River Thermodon (Pontos)🌍 River Strymon (Thrace)🌍 River Phasis (Colchis)🌍 River Spercheios (C. Greece)🌍 Spring and River Dirce (Thebes)🌍 River Ismenos (Thebes)🌍 River Maiandros (Caria)🌍 River Xanthos (Lycia)🌍 River Peneios (Thessaly)👤 Phaethon (s. of Helios)🌍 River Ganges (India)🌍 River Istros (Europe)🌍 River Caicos (Lydia)🌍 River Eurotas (Laconia)🏛️ Spring Peirene (Corinth)🌍 Spring and River Amymone (Argolid)🌍 River Orontes (Syria)🌍 River Erymanthos (Arcadia)🌍 River Caystros (Asia Minor)🏺 the Chariot of Helios🌍 River Hebros (N. Greece)🌍 River Melas (Arcadia)🌍 River Tanais (Scythia)🌍 River Tiber (Italy)🌍 River Po (Italy)👥 the Horses of Helios🌍 River Tagus (Iberia)🌍 River Rhine🌍 River Rhone🌍 the Underworld🌍 India👤 Semiramis🏛️ the Walls of Babylon🏛️ the Palaces of Semiramis (Babylon)
    Mentioned by
    📖 Pausanias 2.5.3📖 Pausanias 10.29.3-10.29.5📖 Ps-Plutarch, On Rivers 20📖 Ovid, Metamorphoses 2.201-2.271📖 Lucian, Menippus, or the Descent into Hades 9
    Mentioned in Text
    PausaniasPs-Plutarch, On RiversOvid, MetamorphosesLucian, Menippus, or the Descent into Hades
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