In Greek mythology, '''Andreus''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|æ|n|d|r|i|ə|s}}; {{langx|grc|Ἀνδρεύς}}) may refer to two distinct individuals:

* Andreus, son of the river-god Peneus in Thessaly, from whom the district about Orchomenos in Boeotia was called ''Andreis''.<ref>Pausanias, 9.34.6</ref> With Evippe, daughter of Leucon, Andreus had a son Eteocles, his successor.<ref>Pausanias, 9.34.9–35.1</ref> * Andreus, in another passage Pausanias speaks of Andreus (it is, however, uncertain whether he means the same man as the former) as the person who first colonized the island of Andros, Greece.<ref>Pausanias, 10.13.4</ref> According to Diodorus Siculus, Andreus was one of the generals of Rhadamanthys, from whom he received the island afterwards called Andros as a present.<ref>Diodorus Siculus, 5.79.2</ref> Stephanus of Byzantium,<ref>Suda s.v. ''Andros''</ref> Conon<ref>Conon, ''Narrations'' 41</ref> and Ovid<ref>Ovid, ''Metamorphoses'' 14.639</ref> call this first colonizer "Andrus" (son of Anius) and not Andreus.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.mythindex.com/greek-mythology/A/Andreus.html |title=Myth Index - Andreus |access-date=2011-01-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101216110529/http://mythindex.com/greek-mythology/A/Andreus.html |archive-date=2010-12-16 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

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== References ==

* Conon'', Fifty Narrations, surviving as one-paragraph summaries in the Bibliotheca (Library) of Photius, Patriarch of Constantinople'' translated from the Greek by Brady Kiesling. [https://web.archive.org/web/20190322161405/https://topostext.org/work/489 Online version at the Topos Text Project.] * Diodorus Siculus, ''The Library of History'' translated by Charles Henry Oldfather. Twelve volumes. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1989. Vol. 3. Books 4.59–8. [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/home.html Online version at Bill Thayer's Web Site] * Diodorus Siculus, ''Bibliotheca Historica. Vol 1-2''. Immanel Bekker. Ludwig Dindorf. Friedrich Vogel. in aedibus B. G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1888-1890. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:2008.01.0540 Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library]. * Pausanias, ''Description of Greece'' with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. {{ISBN|0-674-99328-4}}. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Paus.+1.1.1 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library] * Pausanias, ''Graeciae Descriptio.'' ''3 vols''. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0159 Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library]. * Publius Ovidius Naso, ''Metamorphoses'' translated by Brookes More (1859-1942). Boston, Cornhill Publishing Co. 1922. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0028 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.] * Publius Ovidius Naso, ''Metamorphoses.'' Hugo Magnus. Gotha (Germany). Friedr. Andr. Perthes. 1892. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0029 Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library].

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