Asopis (Ancient Greek: Ἀσωπίς or Ἀσωπίδος) was the name of two women in Greek mythology.
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Asopis, one of the naiad daughters of the river-god Asopus and Metope, the nymph daughter of the river Ladon. She was sister to Pelasgus (Pelagon
[Apollodorus, 3.12.6.]), Ismenus, Chalcis, Corcyra, Salamis, Sinope, Aegina, Peirene, Thebe, Tanagra, Thespia, Ornea[Diodorus Siculus, 4.72.1.] and Harpina.[Diodorus Siculus, 4.73.1]
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Asopis, a Thespiae princess as one of the 50 daughters of King Thespius and Megamede
[Apollodorus, 2.4.10; John Tzetzes, Chiliades 2.222] or by one of his many wives.[Diodorus Siculus, 4.29.2] When Heracles hunted and ultimately slayed the Cithaeronian lion,[Apollodorus, 2.4.9] Asopis with her other sisters, except for one,[Pausanias, 9.27.6; Diodorus Siculus, 4.29.3, f.n. 51] all laid with the hero in a night,[Pausanias, 9.27.6–7; Gregorius Nazianzenus, Orat. IV, Contra Julianum I (Migne S. Gr. 35.661)] a week[Athenaeus, 13.4 with Herodorus as the authority; Diodorus Siculus, 4.29.3, f.n. 51] or for 50 days[Apollodorus, 2.4.10; Diodorus Siculus, 4.29.3; Tzetzes, Chiliades 2.224] as what their father strongly desired it to be.[Apollodorus, 2.4.10; Diodorus Siculus, 4.29.3] Asopis bore Heracles a son, Mentor.[Apollodorus, 2.7.8]
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Apollodorus, The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. ISBN 0-674-99135-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
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Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae or Banquet of the Learned. London. Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden. 1854. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
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Diodorus Siculus, Library of History, Volume III: Books 4.59-8, translated by C. H. Oldfather, Loeb Classical Library No. 340, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1939. . Online version at Harvard University Press. Online version by Bill Thayer.
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Pausanias, Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. . Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
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John Tzetzes, Book of Histories, Book II-IV translated by Gary Berkowitz from the original Greek of T. Kiessling's edition of 1826. Online version at The Theoi Project.
