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GANGES

Greek Name

Γανγης

Transliteration

Gangês

Latin Spelling

Ganges

Translation

River Ganges

GANGES was a river-god of India in south Asia.

The Ganges is a large river in western India. Other rivers of the east which were personified by the ancient Greeks include the Indian Hydaspes, and the Assyrian Tigris and Euphrates.


PARENTS

Presumably OKEANOS & TETHYS

OFFSPRING

LIMNAEE (Ovid Metamorphoses 5.47)


CLASSICAL LITERATURE QUOTES

Ovid, Metamorphoses 5. 47 ff (trans. Melville) (Roman epic C1st B.C. to C1st A.D.) :
"[In the court of the Ethiopian king Cepheus :] There was an Indian lad, Atthis, whom [the river] Ganges' daughter, Limnaee (of the Lake), bore beneath her crystal waters."


SOURCES

ROMAN

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