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23-533: (Redirected from Eridanos ) Eridanus can refer to: Rivers [ edit ] Eridanos (mythology) (or Eridanus), a river in Greek mythology, somewhere in Central Europe, which was territory that Ancient Greeks knew only vaguely The Po River , according to Roman word usage Eridanos (Athens) , a former river near Athens, now subterranean Eridanos (geology) ,

46-527: A former 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 Astronomy [ edit ] Eridanus (constellation) , a southern constellation Eridanus Cluster of galaxies in the constellation Eridanus Eridanus II , a low-surface brightness dwarf galaxy in the constellation Eridanus Eridanus Supervoid ,

69-618: A further one, Hibernia, and a nearer one, Britannia. "Before the estuary of the Loire became silted up in late Roman times, the Bay of Biscay led into a wide gulf, now represented by the lower reaches of the river Brivet and the marshes of the Brière , between Paimboeuf and St. Nazaire , in which were a number of islands. The islands and shores of this gulf, now joined together by silt, are crowded with Bronze Age foundries that worked tin and lead; Pénestin and

92-478: A group of islands whose precise location is unknown, but which was believed to be situated somewhere near the west coast of Europe. Herodotus (430 BC) had only vaguely heard of the Cassiterides, " from which we are said to have our tin ", but did not discount the islands as legendary. Later writers— Posidonius , Diodorus Siculus , Strabo and others—call them smallish islands off ("some way off," Strabo says)

115-592: 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 . Strabo commented disregardingly on such mythmaking: [...] one must put aside many of

138-461: A large-scale cosmic underdensity Miscellaneous [ edit ] Éridan (rocket) , a French rocket Eridanosaurus , a rhinocerotid originally described as a crocodilian Eridan Ampora , a character from the webcomic Homestuck (2009-2016) Ships [ edit ] MV  Éridan  (1928) a French cargo liner in service 1928-56 Éridan -class minehunter , a class of French naval minehunters USS Eridanus (AK-92) ,

161-577: A ship of the United States Navy Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Eridanus . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Eridanus&oldid=1258165350 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

184-588: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Eridanos (mythology) Hesiod , in the Theogony , calls it "deep-eddying Eridanos" in his list of rivers, the offspring of the Titans Tethys and her brother-husband Oceanus . He was called the king of the rivers. Herodotus suspects the word Eridanos to be essentially Greek in character, and notably forged by some unknown poet, and expresses his disbelief in

207-712: The Cassiterides. Instead, they became a third, ill-understood source of tin, conceived of as distinct from Iberia or Britain. Strabo says that a Publius Crassus was the first Roman to visit the Tin Islands and write a first-hand report. This Crassus is thought to be either the Publius Licinius Crassus who was a governor in Hispania in the 90s, or his grandson by the same name , who in 57–56 BC commanded Julius Caesar 's forces in Armorica ( Brittany ), which places him near

230-742: The connection of Eridanus with the Balkan hydronym for the river Drina , although such studies would be necessary, bearing in mind the proximity of the Lower Danube to ancient trade centers on the Mediterranean, as well as the archaeologically increasingly confirmed importance of this area in ancient and pre-antique history. Cassiterides#Ancient geography The Cassiterides ( Greek : Κασσιτερίδες , meaning "Tin Islands", from κασσίτερος, kassíteros " tin ") are an ancient geographical name used to refer to

253-399: The islets which lie off Iberia out in the ocean and are called because of that fact the Cassiterides." According to Diodorus tin also came from Britannia to Gaul and then was brought overland to Massilia and Narbo . Neither of these could be called small islands or accurately described as off the northwest coast of Iberia, and so the Greek and Roman geographers did not identify either as

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276-506: The metal, the Greeks knew only that tin came to them by sea from the far West, and the idea of tin-producing islands easily arose. Later, when the West was better explored, it was found that tin actually came from two regions: Galicia , in the northwest of Iberia , and Devon and Cornwall in southwest Britain. Diodorus reports: "For there are many mines of tin in the country above Lusitania and on

299-770: The mouth of the Loire river. Modern writers have made many attempts to identify them. Small islands off the northwest coast of the Iberian Peninsula, the headlands of that same coast, the Isles of Scilly , Cornwall, and the British Isles as a whole, have all in turn been suggested, but none suits the conditions. Neither the Iberian islands nor the Isles of Scilly contain tin, at least in significant quantities. It seems most probable, therefore, that

322-545: The mythical Hesperides . The islands are described by Pomponius Mela as rich in lead; they are mentioned last in the same paragraph he wrote about Cadiz and the islands of Lusitania , and placed in Celtici . Following paragraphs describe the Île de Sein and Britain. Probably written in the first century BC, the verse Circumnavigation of the World , whose anonymous author is called the " Pseudo-Scymnus ," places two tin islands in

345-933: 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. [...] τὰ δὲ πολλὰ τῶν μυθευομένων ἢ κατεψευσμένων ἄλλως ἐᾶν δεῖ͵ οἷον τὰ περὶ Φαέθοντα καὶ τὰς Ἡλιάδας τὰς ἀπαιγειρουμένας περὶ τὸν Ἠριδανόν͵ τὸν μηδαμοῦ γῆς ὄντα͵ πλησίον δὲ τοῦ Πάδου λεγόμενον͵ καὶ τὰς Ἠλεκτρίδας νήσους τὰς πρὸ τοῦ Πάδου καὶ μελεαγρίδας ἐν αὐταῖς· οὐδὲ γὰρ τούτων οὐδέν ἐστιν ἐν τοῖς τόποις. Virgil introduced it as one of

368-555: The name Cassiterides represents the first vague knowledge of the Greeks that tin was found overseas, somewhere in, off, or near Western Europe. Gavin de Beer has suggested that Roger Dion had solved the puzzle by bringing to bear a chance remark in Avienius ' late poem Ora maritima , which is based on early sources: the tin isles were in an arm of the sea within sight of wide plains and rich mines of tin and lead, and opposite two islands –

391-471: The northwest coast of the Iberian Peninsula, which contained tin mines or, according to Strabo, tin and lead mines. A passage in Diodorus derives the name rather from their nearness to the tin districts of Northwest Iberia. Ptolemy and Dionysios Periegetes mentioned them—the former as ten small islands in northwest Iberia far off the coast and arranged symbolically as a ring, and the latter in connection with

414-489: The rivers of Hades in his Aeneid . When in Nonnus ' fourth- or fifth-century CE Dionysiaca the vast monster Typhon boasts that he will bathe in "starry Eridanus", it is hyperbole , for the constellation Eridanus, represented as a river, was one of the 48 constellations listed by the second-century astronomer Ptolemy ; it remains one of the 88 modern constellations. There have been various guesses at which real river

437-601: The tin headland are just north of them; and there can be no doubt that the famous tin islands were there." De Beer confirms the location from Strabo: the Cassiterides are ten islands in the sea, north of the land of the Artabrians in the northwest corner of Hispania. E. Thomas from the French BRGM showed in a 2004 report that tin mines were probably operated by the Romans at La Hye, near Ploërmel . This tin might have transited down

460-611: The upper part of the Adriatic Sea and mentioned the market place Osor on the island of Cres , where extraordinarily high quality tin could be bought. Pliny the Elder , on the other hand, represents the Cassiterides as fronting Celtiberia . At a time when geographical knowledge of the West was still scanty, and when the secrets of the tin trade were still successfully guarded by the seamen of Gades (modern Cadiz) and others who dealt in

483-480: The whole concept—passed on to him by others, themselves not eye-witnesses—of such a river flowing into a northern sea, surrounding Europe, where the mythical Amber and Tin Isles were supposed; he upholds the belief in the abundance of natural goods at the world's ends though, to be found in the north of Europe as well as in India (east: big animals, gold, cotton ) and Arabia (south: incense , myrrh , etc.). The Eridanos

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506-513: Was later associated with the river Po , because the Po was located near the end of the Amber Trail . According to Apollonius of Rhodes and Ovid , amber originated from the tears of the Heliades , encased in poplars as dryads , shed when their brother, Phaethon , died and fell from the sky, struck by Zeus' thunderbolt, and tumbled into the Eridanos, where "to this very day the marsh exhales

529-784: Was the Eridanos: these include the Po River in north Italy, the Rhone in France and the Rhine . The Eridanos is mentioned in Greek writings as a river in northern Europe rich in amber ( Vistula on Amber Road ?). A small river near Athens was named Eridanos in ancient times, and has been rediscovered with the excavations for construction of the Athens Metro .There were no serious scientific works that would investigate

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