High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! In Greek mythology, Inachus (Greek: ??????) was a king of Argos after whom a river was called Inachus River, the modern Panitsa that drains the western margin of the Argive plain. Though John Lempriere euhemeristically asserted in 1812 that he was king of Argos, with a confident date of circa 1856 BC and Robert Graves that he was a descendant of Iapetus, most modern mythologists understand Inachus as one of the river gods, all sons of Oceanus and Tethys and thus to the Greeks part of the pre-Olympian or "Pelasgian" mythic landscape; in Greek iconography, Walter Burkert notes, the rivers are represented in the form of a bull with a human head or face. In the Danaan founding myth, Poseidon had dried up the springs of the Argolid out of anger at Inachus for testifying that the land belonged to the ancient goddess, Hera; to counter this drought, Danaus sent his daughters to draw water. One of them, Amymone, in her search lay with Poseidon, and...

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