This article is about the river god. For other uses, see Axius.
Axius (Ancient Greek: Ἀξιός) was a Paeonian river god, the son of Oceanus and Tethys. He was the father of Pelagon, by Periboea, daughter of Acessamenus. His domain was the river Axius, or Vardar, in Macedonia (region).
The river god was an ancestor of Euphemus and his son, Eurybarus, the hero who slew the drakaina Sybaris.[1]
See also
- naming citation for Jovian asteroid 5648 Axius
References
- ↑ Antoninus Liberalis, 8 as cited in Boeus' Ornithogonia
- Hyginus Preface
- Iliad 21.141; Bibliotheca E4.7
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