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🌍 River Orontes (Syria)

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  • 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)
    Appears in
    📜 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
    PausaniasStraboOvid, Metamorphoses
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