Greek mythology Greek mythology is the body of myths originally told by the Ancient Greece, ancient Greeks, and a genre of ancient Greek folklore, today absorbed alongside Roman mythology into the broader designation of classical mythology. These stories conc ...

, Beres () was the son of

Makednos In Greek mythology, Makedon, also Macedon () or Makednos (), was the eponymous ancestor of the ancient Macedonians according to various ancient Greek fragmentary narratives. In most versions, he appears as a native or immigrant leader from Epirus ...

, according to Theagenes (2nd century BC) in his Makedonika, who is quoted by

Stephanus of Byzantium Stephanus or Stephen of Byzantium (; , ''Stéphanos Byzántios''; centuryAD) was a Byzantine grammarian and the author of an important geographical dictionary entitled ''Ethnica'' (). Only meagre fragments of the dictionary survive, but the epit ...

,Chatzopoulos, Miltiadēs V. ''Macedonian Institutions Under the Kings: a historical and epigraphic study''. Kentron Hellēnikēs kai Rōmaïkēs Archaiotētos, 1996, and father of Mieza,

Beroea Beroea (or Berea, ) was an ancient city of the Hellenistic period and Roman Empire now known as Veria (or Veroia) in Macedonia, Northern Greece. It is a small city on the eastern side of the Vermio Mountains north of Mount Olympus. The town is m ...

and

Olganos In Greek mythology, Olganos (Ancient Greek: ) was a river and river-god, son of Beres in ancient Macedonia. Family Olganos was the first son of Beres and the brother of Mieza and Beroia after whom the Macedonian cities of Mieza (now Naousa ...

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References

* Place-names in classical mythology: Greece, Robert E. Bell * A history of Macedonia, Volume 1, Nicholas Geoffrey Lemprière Hammond, Guy Thompson Griffith * Classical philology, Volumes 49–50. JSTOR Mythology of Macedonia (ancient kingdom) Characters in Greek mythology {{Greek-myth-stub