Asopus River
A Boeotian river personified as a god whose daughters were repeatedly abducted by Olympian gods.
The Story of Asopus River
The river god Asopus had numerous beautiful daughters — the Asopids — and Zeus in particular made a habit of carrying them off. When Zeus abducted Aegina, Asopus pursued in fury and nearly caught the god. Zeus hurled his thunderbolts and drove Asopus back into his bed; it was said that pieces of coal could still be found in the river's sands, remnants of the scorching. Sisyphus witnessed the abduction and told Asopus which god was responsible — a piece of information gathering that contributed to Sisyphus's eventual punishment of rolling his boulder in Tartarus.
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