Unchanged by any teller — how the centuries since have seen Meander.
In play
WORK · c. 700 BCREAD MORE ↗
Theogony (catalogue of rivers)
Hesiod
Hesiod’s Maeander — twisting river-son of Oceanus and Tethys — the Carian stream whose winding course named a pattern.
LANGUAGE · —READ MORE ↗
meander
English meander — to wander in winding curves — keeps the Maeander’s name as everyday speech, the river-god’s most durable afterlife.