Andreus

Andreus (/ˈændriəs/; Ancient Greek: Ἀνδρεύς) was the son of the river-god Peneus in Thessaly, from whom the district about Orchomenos in Boeotia was called Andreis.^[1] In another passage Pausanias speaks of Andreus (it is, however, uncertain whether he means the same man as the former) as the person who first colonized the island of Andros.^[2] According to Diodorus Siculus, Andreus was one of the generals of Rhadamanthys, from whom he received the island afterwards called Andros as a present.^[3] Stephanus of Byzantium,^[4] Conon^[5] and Ovid^[6] call this first colonizer "Andrus" (son of Anius) and not Andreus.^[7] With Evippe, daughter of Leucon, Andreus had a son Eteocles, his successor.^[8]

References

1. Pausanias, Description of Greece, 9. 34. 6
2. Paus. 10. 13. 4
3. Diodorus Siculus, Library of History, 5. 79. 2
4. S. v. Andros
5. Narrations, 41
6. Metamorphoses, 14. 639
7. Myth Index - Andreus
8. Paus. 9. 34. 9 - 9. 35. 1

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1870). "^{article name needed}". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.