Re: [cybalist] River names

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From: Christopher Straughn

To: cybalist@egroups.com

Sent: Saturday, April 29, 2000 8:40 PM

Subject: Re: [cybalist] River names

It surprises me that thus far nobody has mentioned the name of the river
constellation Eridanus.  Can anyone tell me the etymology of that word?

 

Objection, I have (Cybalist #2235). The earthly Eridanus was the river on the banks of which Phaeton crashed to earth and was  buried. It has most commonly been associated with the River Po, but also with other big rivers at the end of the Greeks' world, even the Rhein.

 

Piotr