- Information
- river in Syria
- Alternative name
- 🌍 River Typhon (alt. Orontes)
- Identified with
- 🌍 the Land of the Arimoi (unlocatable)
- Said to flow from or into
- 🌍 Charybdis (Syria)
- Created by
- 👤 Typhon
- Personification
- 👤 Orontes
- Eponym
- 👤 Orontes
- Relics preserved on site
- 🏺 the Bones of Orontes
- Related Entities
- 👤 Zeus 👤 Typhon 👤 Io 👤 Triptolemos 🏺 the Thunderbolt of Zeus 🌍 Argos (city) 🌍 the Land of the Ethiopians 🌍 River Nile (Egypt) 🌍 Libya (region) 🌍 River Euenos (Aitolia) 🌍 River Alpheios (Peloponnese) 🌍 River Thermodon (Pontos) 🌍 River Strymon (Thrace) 🌍 Cilicia (SE Asia Minor) 🌍 River Phasis (Colchis) 🌍 River Spercheios (Central Greece) 🌍 Spring and River Dirce (Thebes) 🌍 River Ismenos (Thebes) 🌍 River Maiandros (Caria) 🌍 River Xanthos (Lycia) 🌍 the Land of the Arimoi (unlocatable) 🌍 River Peneios (Thessaly) 👤 Phaethon (s. of Helios) 🌍 River Ganges (India) 🌍 River Istros (Europe) 🌍 River Caicos (Lydia) 🌍 River Eurotas (Laconia) 🏛️ Spring Peirene (Corinth) 🌍 River Euphrates (Mesopotamia) 🌍 Spring and River Amymone (Argolid) 👤 Orontes 🏺 the Bones of Orontes 🌍 River Erymanthos (Elis/Arcadia) 🌍 Tyre (Phoinicia) 🌍 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 👤 Gordys 🌍 Gordyene (Mesopotamia) 🌍 Charybdis (Syria)
- Mentioned by
- 📖 Pausanias 8.29.3-8.29.4 📖 Ovid, Metamorphoses 2.201-2.271 📖 Strabo 16.2.5 📖 Strabo 16.2.7 📖 Strabo 6.2.9
- Mentioned in Text
- Pausanias Strabo Ovid, Metamorphoses
- Reported to have local traditions about
- 👤 Daphne (nymph) 🌍 Daphne (Antioch)
- Local traditions reported by
- 📖 Pausanias 8.20.1-8.20.4