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IMBRASOS

Greek Name

Ιμβρασος

Transliteration

Imbrasos

Latin Spelling

Imbrasus

Translation

River Imbrasus

IMBRASOS was a river-god of the island of Samos in the Greek Aegean.

The Imbrasos was a small stream on Samos Island. Other personified Aegean island rivers included the Inopos of Delos and the Amnisos of Krete.

PARENTS

Presumably OKEANOS & TETHYS

OFFSPRING

OKYRHOE (by Khesias) (Athenaeus 7.283)

CLASSICAL LITERATURE QUOTES

Pausanias, Description of Greece 7. 4. 4 (trans. Jones) (Greek travelogue C2nd A.D.) :
"The Samians hold that the goddess [Hera] was born in the island by the side of the river Imbrasos."

SOURCES

GREEK

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