Peneus
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thumb|upright=1.4|Peneus averts his gaze as Apollo, pierced by Cupid's arrow of desire, pursues Daphne, transforming into the laurel (Apollo and Daphne, 1625, by Nicolas Poussin|Poussin) thumb|River gods consoling Peneus for the Loss of his Daughter, Daphne In Greek mythology, Peneus (; ) was a Thessalian river god, one of the three thousand Rivers, a child of Oceanus and Tethys.
== Family == 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. 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.