Nilus 
Nilus' father is Oceanus and his mother is Tethys. His paternal grandparents are Uranus ("himmel") and Gaea ("jord"); his maternal grandparents are Uranus ("himmel") and Gaea ("jord"). He has fifteen brothers and seventeen sisters, named Crinisus, Simoeis, Peneius, Cephissus, Achelous, Neilos, Asopus, Xanthus, Inachos, Inachus, Phorcus, Ladon, Strymon, Uchoreus, Xanthus, Eurynome, Amphitrite, Merope, Clymene, Metis, Pero, Perse, Daeira, Asia, Dione, Argeia, Doris, Aethra, Callirhoe, Melia, Meliboea and the Oceanide. He has a half-brother and two half-sisters, named Triptolemus, Creusa and Philyra.General Notes
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ACHIROE, Anchinoe, or Anchiroe was a daughter of Nilus, the Nile River. Her history is somewhat confusing because of the differnet spellings of her name by ancient writers and tentative assignment to her of offspring in quite separate geographical locations. Achiroe, called Anchinoe by Apollodorus (2.14), was the wife of Belus, son of Poseidon and Libya, who ruled at Chemnis. By him she became the mother of Aegyptus and Danaus, thereby becoming grandmother to the 50 sons of the first and 50 daughters of the second. According to some, Cepheus and Phineus were also sons of Achiroe and Belus. According to one writer, Ares begot by her a son, Sithon, who became a king in Thrace and had two daughters, Rhoeteia and Pallene. At this point, things become a little muddled, since Egypt and Thrace are quite far apart. Not only that, but at least one writer called Rhoeteia and Pallene sisters of Sithon, not daughters. According to still another writer, Pallene was his daughter by Achiroe(!). It is quite reasonable to assume ther might have been two Achiroes--one Egyptian and the other Macedonian--and that the Macedonian one was the mother, not the lover, of Sithon. [Tzetzes on Lycophron 583,1161.]
CALLIRRHOE (1) was a daughter of Oceanus and Tethys. By Chrysaor she became the mother of Geryones and Echidna. Chrysaor was a son of Poseidon by Medusa. When Perseus cut off Medusa's head, Chrysaor and Pegasus came forth, Chrysaor brandishing a golden sword. Perhaps he was not particularly monstrous-looking when he mated with Callirrhoe; the Oceanides usually managed to have presentable fathers for their children. However, the offspring from this union reverted to the type represented by their grandmother Medusa. Geryones was three-headed, and Echidna had a serpentine lower body. Both these monsters figured in the stories of Heracles. Callirrhoe had more normal children by other men. She had a daughter, Chione, by the Nile River and by Poseidon a son, Minyas, the ancestor of the Minyans. Callirrhoe was also said to be the mother of Cotys by Manes, the first king of Lydia. [Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities 1.27; Hesiod, Theogony 280,351,981; Apollodorus 2.5.10; Hyginus, Fables 151; Servius on Virgil's Aeneid 4.250; Tzetzes on Lycophron 686.]
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