In
Greek mythology,
Peneus (; ) was a
Thessalian river god, one of the three thousand Rivers (
Potamoi), a child of
Oceanus and
Tethys. The nymph
Creusa bore him one son,
Hypseus, who was King of the
Lapiths, and three daughters, Menippe (mother of
Phrastor by
Pelasgus),
Daphne and
Stilbe. He also had a son
Atrax with
Bura, and
Andreus with an unknown consort. Tricce, eponym of the city
Tricca, was mentioned as his daughter. Some sources state that he was the father of
Cyrene, alternately known as his granddaughter through Hypseus. Daphne, in an
Arcadian version of the myth, was, instead, the daughter of the river god Ladon.
