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Peneus
Thessalian river god / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other uses, see Peneus (disambiguation).
In Greek mythology, Peneus (/pəˈniːəs/; Ancient Greek: Πηνειός) was a Thessalian river god, one of the three thousand Rivers (Potamoi), a child of Oceanus and Tethys.[1]
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