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HALIAKMON

Greek Name

Ἁλιακμων

Transliteration

Haliakmôn

Latin Spelling

Haliacmon

Translation

River Haliacmon

HALIAKMON (Haliacmon) was a river-god of Makedonia and Pieria in northern Greece.

The River Haliakmon flowed through Makedonia north of Mount Olympos. The two major neighbouring rivers were the Axios to the north and Baphyras to the south.

PARENTS

OKEANOS & TETHYS (Hesiod Theogony 337)

OFFSPRING

Perhaps METHONE

ENCYCLOPEDIA

HALIACMON (Haliakmôn), a son of Oceanus and Thetys, was a river god of Macedonia. (Hes. Theog. 341; Strab. vii. p. 330.)

Source: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.

CLASSICAL LITERATURE QUOTES

Hesiod, Theogony 337 ff (trans. Evelyn-White) (Greek epic C8th or 7th B.C.) :
"Tethys bore to Okeanos (Oceanus) the swirling Potamoi (Rivers) . . . Heptaporos and Haliakmon (Haliacmon), Grenikos (Granicus) and Aisepos (Aesepus) [in a list of rivers]."

SOURCES

GREEK

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