Haliacmon (mythology)

Haliacmon (or Aliacmon, Ancient Greek: Ἁλιάκμων) was in Greek mythology a son of Oceanus and Thetys. He was a minor river god in his own right, of the eponymous Haliacmon in Macedonia.[1][2] In other mythological traditions he was the son of Palaestinus and grandson of Poseidon.[3]

References

  1. Hesiod, Theogony 341
  2. Strabo, vii. p. 330
  3. Plutarch, De Fluv. 11

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Leonhard Schmitz (1870). "Haliacmon". In Smith, William. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology 2. p. 325. 

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