![]() ![]() It is produced as a watercourse erodes the sediments of an outer, concave bank ( cut bank or river cliff) and deposits sediments on an inner, convex bank which is typically a point bar. The result of this coupled erosion and sedimentation is the formation of a sinuous course as the channel migrates back and forth across the axis of a floodplain. ![]() The zone within which a meandering stream periodically shifts its channel is known as a meander belt. It typically ranges from 15 to 18 times the width of the channel. Over time, meanders migrate downstream, sometimes in such a short time as to create civil engineering challenges for local municipalities attempting to maintain stable roads and bridges. The degree of meandering of the channel of a river, stream, or other watercourse is measured by its sinuosity. The sinuosity of a watercourse is the ratio of the length of the channel to the straight line down-valley distance. Streams or rivers with a single channel and sinuosities of 1.5 or more are defined as meandering streams or rivers. The term derives from the winding river Menderes located in Asia-Minor and known to the Ancient Greeks as Μαίανδρος Maiandros ( Latin: Maeander), characterised by a very convoluted path along the lower reach. Hyginus, Fabulae - Latin Mythography C2nd A.D.Ī complete bibliography of the translations quoted on this page.As a result, even in Classical Greece (and in later Greek thought) the name of the river had become a common noun meaning anything convoluted and winding, such as decorative patterns or speech and ideas, as well as the geomorphological feature.Antoninus Liberalis, Metamorphoses - Greek Mythography C2nd A.D.Apollodorus, The Library - Greek Mythography C2nd A.D.Hesiod, Theogony - Greek Epic C8th - 7th B.C.Of the same descent Rivers : Strymon, Nile, Euphrates, Tanais, Indus, Cephisus, Ismenus, Axenus, Achelous, Simoeis, Inachus, Alpheus, Thermodon, Scamandrus, Tigris, Maeandrus, Orontes." "Thrassa was daughter of Ares and of Tereine daughter of Strymon." Celoria) (Greek mythographer C2nd A.D.) : "Herakles blamed the Strymon river for his difficulty in gathering the cattle and, where it had previously been a navigable stream, he made it unnavigable by filling it in with rocks."Īntoninus Liberalis, Metamorphoses 21 (trans. He married Euadne (Evadne), the daughter of Strymon and Neaira." He got the rule and named the Peloponnesos Argos after himself. "Euterpe-or Kalliope (Calliope), according to some-bore to the river Strymon Rhesos (Rhesus), whom Diomedes murdered at Troy." Aldrich) (Greek mythographer C2nd A.D.) : deep-eddying Eridanos, Strymon and Maiandros (Meander), Istros (Ister). "Tethys bore to Okeanos (Oceanus) the swirling Potamoi (Rivers). Evelyn-White) (Greek epic C8th or 7th B.C.) : Source: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. 21.) By Euterpe or Calliope, he became the father of Rhesus (Apollod. STRYMON (Strumôn),a son of Oceanus and Tethys, was a river god of Thrace, and is called a king of Thrace. RHESOS (by Euterpe or Kalliope) (Apollodorus 1.18) OKEANOS & TETHYS (Hesiod Theogony 337, Hyginus Preface) OFFSPRING The small Brykhon stream west of the Strymon was also personified. The major neighbouring rivers were the Nestos to the east and Axios to the west. The Strymon River emptied into the Aegean Sea between the Khalkidike (Chalcidice) peninsular and the island of Thasos. STRYMON was a river-god of Edonia in Thrake, north of Greece. ![]()
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