Anigros/Minyeios (river)
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: G. Reger, J. McK. Camp II Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: G. Reger, J. McK. Camp II Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Dec 20, 2021 04:40 PM
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History
Pausanias describes this river near Samicum (Triyphylia) in Elis. He states that the river's currents frequently are held back by violent gales and that around the river mouth one finds quicksand.
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- Representative Locations:
- Barrington Atlas location (unspecified date range)
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- Ἄνιγρος ποταμὸς (Anigros potamos: Ancient Greek, 30 BC - AD 300)
- ποταμὸς Μινυήιος (potamos Minyeios: Ancient Greek, 30 BC - AD 300)
- None
- Akidas/Iardanos (river) flows into Anigros/Minyeios (river) (unspecified date range)
unlocated, river, drainage
- Evidence:
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- See Also:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 58 Anigros/Minyeios fl.
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Triphylia: river near Samikon. Pausanias (5.5.11) relates that a cave sacred to the Anigrides, the river nymphs (potamides) of the river Anigros, was located near Samikon and was visited by those seeking relief from diseases of the skin.
G. Reger, J. McK. Camp II, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Anigros/Minyeios (river): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2021 <http://3.22.44.247/places/573093> [accessed: 05 July 2025]
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