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Greek Mythology > People, Places, & Things > Eridanos (1)
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A river god; one of the many sons of Tethys and Okeanos (Ocean).
The river which Eridanos inhabited is thought to be the modern Po or perhaps the Rhine.
When the son of Helios (the Sun), Phaethon, drove his father’s chariot too close to the earth, Zeus struck Phaethon with a thunderbolt and he fell into the river Eridanos.
Zeus gave the Rivers, Apollon and the Okeanids the special obligation of having the young in their keeping.
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