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

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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.

* Eridanos ( Athens ), a former river near Athens

* Eridanos ( geology ), a large river that flowed between forty million and seven hundred thousand years ago from Lapland to the North Sea through where the Baltic Sea is now

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The quarter was located there because of the abundance of clay mud carried over by the Eridanos River.

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 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.

At that time the Rhine was far less important than the Eridanos.

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