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  • Cephissus (Boeotia) , a river arising in Phocis and flowing through northern Boeotia into Lake Copais.

  • Cephissus (Athenian Plain) , a river in Attica flowing through the Athenian plain.

  • Cephissus (Eleusinian plain), a river of Attica flowing through the Eleusinian plain. Pausanias (1.38.4) claims it flows more violently than the other Cephissus of the Athenian plain.

  • Cephissus (Argolis), a river of Argolis , tributary of the Inachus . According to Pausanias (2.15.5) the rivers Inachus , Cephissus, and Asterion judged between Poseidon and Hera as to who should own Argos . They judged for Hera, whereupon Poseidon dried up the land so that the rivers that flow there provide little water, except after rain, and dry up in the summer.

  • Cephissus (Salamis), a river in Salamis .

  • Cephissus (Corinth), a former river which Pausanias (2.20.6) says was destroyed by Poseidon but which can still be heard flowing under the earth at a sanctuary to Cephissus in Corinth .


Cephissus was also a man changed into a sea monster by Apollo .