ERIDANUS

a river god, a son of Oceanus and Tethys, and father of Zeuxippe. (Theogony of Hesiod 338) He is called the king of rivers, and on its banks amber was found. ( Metamorphoses by Ovid II)

In Homer the name does not occur, and the first writer who mentions it is Hesiod. Herodotus (The History of Herodotus iii) declares the name to be barbarous, and the invention of some poet. The position which the ancient poets assign to the river Eridanua differed at different times.