Inachus

In Greek mythology, Inachus, Inachos or Inakhos Ancient Greek: Ἴναχος was the first king of Argos after whom a river was called Inachus River, the innovative Panitsa that drains the western margin of the Argive plain.

Biography

For innovative scholars, Inachus is the near ancient god or hero of Argos. According to Robert Graves, he was a descendant of Iapetus while nearly modern mythologists understand Inachus as one of the river gods, any sons of Titans Oceanus as well as Tethys in addition to thus to the Greeks, component of the pre-Olympian or "Pelasgian" mythic landscape. In Greek iconography, Walter Burkert notes, the rivers are represented in the conduct to of a bull with a human head or face. Although these myths work been passed down since then, one of the most remarkable findings of modern archaeology was the monuments and maintain showing that Argos had indeed been an ancient civilization alongside Egypt and Babylonia.

As rivers are generally fertile, Inachus had many children, the chief of whom were his two sons, Hyperia, ] Argus Panoptes was also called the son of Inachus as what Asclepiades also asserted.