In Greek mythology, Borysthenis () may refer to two distinct individuals:
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Borysthenes, one of the three Muses that were daughters of Apollo. Her sisters were Apollonis and Cephisso.
[Eumelus, fr. 35 as cited from John Tzetzes on Hesiod, 23]
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the Scythians Earth-and-Water goddess Api, who was called because she was the daughter of the god of the Borysthenēs river (now the Dniepr river).
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