Inachus
place · 3 works · 4 mentions · 5 anchored passages
also in the atlas: Inachus the figure
city of rivers twain · streams of Inachus · the streams of Inachus
in the texts
Suppliants
The river (and river-god) of Argos, used as a poetic name for the Argive homeland.
O that some god would give me wings to fly to the city of rivers twain!
’Tis safe, and all hath happened as I would it had befallen Adrastus and his Argives, whom from Inachus he led, to march against the city of the Cadmeans.
from Arcady he came even to the streams of Inachus, and in Argos spent his boyhood.
Electra
The river of the Argive plain invoked in the play's opening lines.
O ancient plain of land, the streams of Inachus, from which king Agamemnon once mounted war on a thousand ships and sailed to the land of Troy.
Phoenissae
River at Argos invoked by Jocasta when imagining Polyneices dedicating spoils of a conquered Thebes.
How will you begin the sacrifice after your country’s conquest or inscribe the spoils at the streams of Inachus: