For the real rivers, see Eridanos ( geology ) or Eridanos ( Athens ).

* Eridanos ( mythology ) ( or Eridanus ), a river in Greek mythology, somewhere in Central Europe, which was territory that Ancient Greeks knew only vaguely

* Eridanos ( Athens ), a former river near Athens

Perhaps the earliest of these, Polybius ( 2nd century BC ), uses Pados ( in Greek ) and says that it was to be identified with the Eridanos of the poets.

He believed it was a Greek name ( there are other Eridanos rivers in Greece ), " invented by some poet ," but makes no conjectures as to where it might be.

: One must put aside many of the mythical or false accounts such as those of Phaethon and of the Heliades changed into black poplars near the Eridanos ( a river that does not exist anywhere on earth, although it is said to be near the Po ), and of the Islands of Amber that lie off the Po, and of the guinea-fowl on them, because none of these exist in this area.

Since Eridanos was also a Greek name for the Po ( Latin Padus ), in which the burning body of Phaëton is said by Ovid to have extinguished, the mythic geography of the celestial and earthly Eridanus is complex.

During the Archaic period increasingly large and complex grave mounds and monuments were built along the south bank of the Eridanos, lining the Sacred Way.

It was originally an area of marshland along the banks of the Eridanos river which was used as a cemetery as long ago as the third millennium BC.

Herodotus had expressed doubt concerning the existence of a river in Europe, Eridanos, which flowed into the northern sea, he said, from which amber came.

After Phaethon died, he sat by the river Eridanos mourning his death.

According to some sources, their tears ( amber ) fell into the river Eridanos, in which Phaethon had fallen.

She was the daughter of the river god Eridanos.

Eventually, Zeus was forced to intervene by striking the runaway chariot with a lightning bolt to stop it, and Phaëthon plunged into the river Eridanos.

The river Eridanos () or Eridanus (; ) is a river mentioned in Greek mythology.

Herodotus ( III, 115 ) points out that the word Eridanos is essentially Greek in character, and surmises that consequently the river supposed to run around the world is probably a Greek invention.

According to Apollonius of Rhodes and Ovid, amber originated from the tears of the Heliades, encased in poplars as dryads, shed when their brother, Phaeton, died and fell from the sky, struck by Zeus ' thunderbolt, and tumbled into the Eridanos, where " to this very day the marsh exhales a heavy vapour which rises from his smouldering wound ; no bird can stretch out its fragile wings to fly over that water, but in mid-flight it falls dead in the flames ;" " along the green banks of the river Eridanos ," Cygnus mourned him — Ovid told — and was transformed into a swan.

There in the far west, Heracles asked the river nymphs of Eridanos to help him locate the Garden of the Hesperides.

There have been various guesses at which real river was the Eridanos: these include the Po River in north Italy, and the Rhone, in France.

The Eridanos is mentioned in Greek writings as a river in northern Europe rich in amber.

A small river near Athens was named Eridanos in ancient times, and has been rediscovered with the excavations for construction of the Athens Metro.

Eridanos is the name that has been applied by geologists to a river which flowed where the Baltic Sea is now, a river system also known simply as the " Baltic River System ".

* Eridanos, the river of ancient Athens: Archaeological guide ( in Greek and English ) ( Archaeological Receipts Fund ).

The name Eridanos, derived from the ancient Greek Eridanos, was given by geologists to a river which flowed where the Baltic Sea is now ( Overeem, et al., 2002 ).

By about 12 million years ago in the Miocene, the Eridanos had reached the North Sea area where sediments carried by the river built an immense delta.

Eridanos () was the small stream that flowed from a source in the foothills of the Lykabettos, through the Agora of ancient Athens in Greece to the archaeological site of the Kerameikos, where its bed is still visible.

The Eridanos began about 40 million years ago in the Eocene.

The geological Eridanos was most important during the Baventian Stage about two million years ago in the late early Pleistocene, when it was about 2700 kilometres or about 1700 miles long, a little shorter than the modern Danube.

During the first glacial stage of the Cromerian Complex, c. 0. 7 Ma ago, sedimentation in the Netherlands of the Baltic River System came to an end, indicating the end of the Eridanos.

Down the hill from the museum, visitors can wander among the Outer Kerameikos ruins, the Demosion Sema, the banks of the Eridanos where some water still flows, the remains of the Pompeion and the Dipylon Gate, and walk the first blocks of the Sacred Way towards Eleusis and of the Panethenaic Way towards the Acropolis.

The bulk of the area lies about 7 – 10 meters below modern street level, having in the past been inundated by centuries ' worth of sediment accumulation from the floods of the Eridanos.

The brick tunnel now forms part of a small open-air museum at Monastiraki Square, next to the Metro station, and the waters of the Eridanos are from inside the tunnel.

Eridanos deposits in the Netherlands dating from the late Early Pleistocene Menapian glacial stage show the presence of Scandinavian erratic boulders ( so-called ' Hattem Layers '; Zandstra, 1971 ).

Remnants of the Eridanos are found all through northern Europe, from the current North Sea and the Netherlands at its western end to sediments in northern Lapland.

Eridanos sediments in the Netherlands and the neighbouring North Sea can be recognized by a high content of transparent blue-grey, lightgrey, and colorless quartz in the sand as well as in the gravel fractions.

After the disappearance of the Eridanos, the River Rhine is left as the most important river in this part of the North Sea Basin.

The Late Cenozoic Eridanos delta system in the southern North Sea Basin: a climate signal in sediment supply?

The Eridanos disappeared in the early Middle Pleistocene when the Ice Age glaciers excavated the Baltic Sea bed.

Apollonius wrote that the Argonauts sighted Hyperborea, when they sailed through Eridanos.

Kerameikos () is an area of Athens, Greece, located to the northwest of the Acropolis, which includes an extensive area both within and outside the ancient city walls, on both sides of the Dipylon ( Δίπυλον ) Gate and by the banks of the Eridanos River.

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* Extension ( geology ), relating to the pulling apart of the Earth's crust and lithosphere

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* Hotspot ( geology ), an area of unusually high volcanic activity

* Matrix ( geology ), the fine-grained material in which larger objects are embedded

* Mensa ( geology ), an extraterrestrial area of raised land

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* Prism ( geology ), a type of sedimentary deposit

* Rock ( geology ), naturally occurring solid aggregate of minerals and / or mineraloid

* Rock ( geology ), naturally occurring solid aggregate of minerals and / or mineraloids

* Compression ( geology ), the set of stresses directed toward the center of a rock mass

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