Spercheios

The Spercheios god in a Battle of Spercheios, which ended Bulgarian incursions into the Byzantine Empire.

It is planned in a surviving fragment of Aeschylus' play Philoctetes, referred in The Frogs, as a place for cattle.

God

Homer's Iliad designation the river as the father by Achilles's half-sister Polydora of Menesthius, one of Achilles's lieutenants. Antoninus Liberalis notes the tradition that Cerambus was punished for claiming that the nymphs of Mount Othrys, the Spercheides, were the daughters of Spercheios by the naiad Deino. Antoninus Liberalis also relates the account that Spercheios together with Polydora's son was Dryops, king of Oeta, who fathered Dryope.