In Greek mythology, Peneus (Πηνειός) was a river god, one of the three-thousand Rivers, a child of Oceanus and Tethys. // Greek mythology consists in part in a large collection of narratives that explain the origins of the world and detail the lives and adventures of a wide variety of gods, goddesses, heroes, and heroines. ... Oceanus or Okeanos refers to the ocean, which the Greeks and Romans regarded as a river circling the world. ... In Greek mythology, Tethys was a Titaness and sea goddess who was both sister and wife of Oceanus. ...

Eros, the Greek God of Love, shot Apollo, the Greek God of the sun, with one of his arrows, causing him to fall in love with the dryad Daphne, daughter of Ladon. It was Eros's plan that Daphne would scorn Apollo because Eros was angry that Apollo had made fun of his archery skills. Eros also claimed to be irritated by Apollo's singing. Daphne prayed to the river god Peneus to help her, and he changed her into a laurel tree, which later became sacred to Apollo. In Greek mythology, Eros was the god responsible for lust, love, and sex; he was also worshipped as a fertility deity. ... For other uses, see Apollo (disambiguation). ... The Dryad by Evelyn De Morgan Dryads are female tree spirits in Greek mythology. ... Daphne - From the painting by Deverial. ... Ladon is the hundred-headed dragon that guarded the garden of the Hesperides in Greek mythology. ... In Greek mythology, Eros was the god responsible for lust, love, and sex; he was also worshipped as a fertility deity. ... Daphne - From the painting by Deverial. ... For other uses, see Apollo (disambiguation). ... In Greek mythology, Eros was the god responsible for lust, love, and sex; he was also worshipped as a fertility deity. ...

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• http://www.pantheon.org/articles/p/peneus.html
• http://www.forumromanum.org/mythology/peneus.html