Definition, Meaning & Anagrams | English word ERIDANOS

Definitions of ERIDANOS

1. Alternative form of Eridanus.

Examples of Using ERIDANOS in a Sentence

• Eridanos (mythology) (or Eridanus), a river in Greek mythology, somewhere in Central Europe, which was territory that Ancient Greeks knew only vaguely.
• In pre-glacial times a river, which the Baltic Sea basin then contained and which geologists call the Eridanos, must have passed near the region as the rise of South Swedish Dome in Neogene times diverted it south from its previous path across central Sweden.
• 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.
• Since Eridanos was also a Greek name for the Po (Latin Padus), in which the burning body of Phaethon is said by Ovid to have extinguished, the mythic geography of the celestial and earthly Eridanus is complex.
• The Plague Sower, translated by Stephen Sartarelli and with an introduction by Leonardo Sciascia, Hygiene (CO): Eridanos Press, 1988; translated as The Plague-spreader's Tale by Patrick Creagh, London: Harvill, 1999.
• The French Republic annexed the départements of Doire, Marengo, Pô (briefly named "Éridan", after Eridanos), Sesia, Stura, and Tanaro, while the Italian Republic annexed Novara (as the department of Agogna).

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