Unchanged by any teller — how the centuries since have seen Asopus.
The gallery
Pyxis with Zeus and Aigina
Unknown (Attic red-figure), c. 470–460 BC
Attic pyxis (Fitzwilliam): Zeus seizes Aegina while tradition places her father Asopus among the reacting figures — the river-god whose daughters name islands and cities, watching one stolen for the island that will bear her name.
Jupiter and Aegina
Cornelis Bos, 16th century
Rijksmuseum engraving from Jupiter's love adventures: the abduction of Asopus' daughter Aegina — the river-god's household rewritten as a Mannerist amorous series.
Jupiter and Aegina
Unknown (after Cornelis Bos / Jupiter series), 16th–17th century
Another impression of the Jupiter–Aegina pursuit: Asopus' daughter as the prize — the river-father's loss that founds the Aeacid island line.
Aegina Waiting for the Arrival of Zeus
Ferdinand Bol, c. 1650
Bol paints Asopus' daughter awaiting Zeus — the naiad whose abduction will make her father search the earth and quarrel with the king of gods.