Part of Boetia containing Mount Helicon. BkVI:1-25. Bk XIII:576-622.
Alpheus or Alpheios (/ ... Family. Bk VII:350-403. The grandfather of Ulysses. As instructed, we worship the patron spirits of the place. Marin.
"[At Olympia :] Every year the soothsayers . Bk VIII:260-328. The assistance of Diomede. See Homer, The Odyssey XIII. Bk VII:404-424. The Actaean hill, referring to the Athenian Acropolis. Campbell, Vol. One of Niobe’s seven sons killed by Apollo and Diana. Bk XIV:445-482. He rejects the divine origin of Bacchus and Perseus, but will live to regret it. [8], According to Pausanias, Alpheus was a passionate hunter and fell in love with the nymph Arethusa, but she fled from him to the island of Ortygia near Syracuse, and metamorphosed herself into a well, after which Alpheus became a river, which flowing from the Peloponnese under the sea to Ortygia, there united its waters with those of the well Arethusa. It was Alpheus' voice, calling me from his waters.
3 (trans. According to another version, the goddess fled to Ortygia, where she had likewise a temple under the name of Alphaea. Bk VI:26-69. [N.B. Bk XIII:705-737. The son of Cretheus, and father of Melampus, noted for wisdom. Please refer to our Privacy Policy. Bk VI:103-128 . ", Ovid, Metamorphoses 5. She falls in love with Hippomenes. Bk XIII:623-639. The son of Oecleus, father of Alcmaeon, and husband of Eriphyle. But never may the ash be made into past with other water, and for this reason the Alpheios is thought to be of all Rivers the dearest to Zeus Olympios. Pearse) (Greek mythographer C1st to C2nd A.D.) :
Encyclopedia of Greek and Roman mythology. After a long chase, she prayed to her goddess to ask for protection. Bk II:633-675. An island in the Saronic Sea between Attica and Argolis.
"[From a description of an ancient Greek painting depicting the chariot-race of Pelops and Oinomaos (Oenomaus) at Olympia :] Even the [the River-God] Alpheios (ALpheus) leaps from his eddy to pluck a crown of wild olive for Pelops as he drives along the bank of the river. (Strab. 26; Fulgent. The song of 'The Aretusa' originally appeared in a small opera or musical entertainment called 'The Lock and Key', which was acted in 1796. it:Aretusa Bk IX:1-88. Alpheus. Bk XV:418-452.
Arachne depicts the rape by Neptune. Bk IV:604-662. The tapestry, that Velázquez shows Arachne weaving in the painting, is a copy of Titian’s painting of the Rape of Europa in the Gardner Museum, Boston, done for Philip II of Spain, the painting therefore revealing as Ovid does, a myth within a myth.). 4 (trans. He is killed by Paris’s arrow, at Apollo’s instigation. The Aegean Sea between Greece and Asia Minor.
A tributary of the Tiber. Bk XV:1-59. Bk XIII:675-704. Bk XIII:623-639. Ulysses responds with a speech extolling intelligence above mere brawn and courage, and arguing that a man should be judged on his abilities not his ancestry. King Aeetes is reluctant and sets Jason demanding tasks as a pre-condition for its return. The acknowledged son of Jupiter by Aegina.
Her rape by Neptune in the form of a bull is depicted by Arachne.
According to Ovid’s Metamorphoses , Book V, Arethusa, while bathing in the Alpheus River , was seen and pursued by the river god in human form. He moors the fleet on a Thracian beach returning from Troy, and there Achilles’s ghost appears demanding the sacrifice of Polyxena. Bk XIV:154-222. Rules at Delphi and Delos. An Ethiopian killed in the fight between Perseus and Phineus.
Aegeus recognises a sword he has left under a stone, as a trial, successfully attained by Theseus, in time to dash Medea’s poisoned cup from Theseus’s lips. He had courted Thetis another of the Nereids but desisted when it was prophesied that any son born to her would be greater than his father. After a long chase, she prayed to her goddess to ask for protection. Bk VII:453-500. The rain of Zeus has not stirred us so much as the arrow of the Foamborn [Aphrodite]. Pentheus calls on her to help him, invoking the shade of her dead Actaeon, but she helps the other Maenads to tear him apart. Bk XI:710-748. Jones) (Greek travelogue C2nd A.D.) : Bk XV:843-870. Pausanias, Description of Greece 8. Father of the Pleiades, Hyades and Hesperides. Other references not currently quoted here: Plutarch Moralia 19. . . Bk XV:259-306.
Bk V:294-331. Referring to Pelorus on the north-east coast of Sicily nearest to Italy.
He is an Ethiopian king. He reproves Pentheus for attempting to capture the god Bacchus. I, sinking down, borne through blind caverns reached Ortygia [i.e. Son of Anius, ruler of one of the Cycladic islands named after him. Bk IX:324-393. He helps Laomedon build the walls of Troy, with Neptune. Bk VII:453-500. He sees his father’s shade in the fields of Elysium. Bk V:533-571. ", Nonnus, Dionysiaca 42. Bk I:244-273. [5] Through him, Alpheus was the grandfather of Diocles, and great-grandfather of a pair of soldiers, Crethon and Orsilochus, who were slain by Aeneas during the Trojan War. A river in Lower Italy. Bk IX:89-158. He wages war with the Rutulians under Turnus, and is supported by Evander. Described as the city of Mopsopius.
Bk III:572-596. "Wither so fast, fair Arethusa?" Worshipped as Osiris, Apis was later confused with Serapis and worshipped in the Serapeum at Alexandria.
[6][7][8], Apart from retellings by classical authors including Ovid and Virgil, Percy Bysshe Shelley wrote a poem on Arethusa in 1820. He waves the marriage torch with Hymen at Perseus’s marriage to Andromeda. Bk XII:579-628. He seems to refer to it in a number of the stories, for example that of Coronis, where the talebearer is punished. Ara represents the altar on which the gods swore an oath of allegiance before defeating the Titans. Bk XIII:382-398. The son of Amphiaraüs and Eriphyle. For the genus of moths, see, Learn how and when to remove this template message, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, http://www.pcgs.com/News/Changes-In-The-Depiction-Of-Arethusa-On-The-Coins-Of, Warburg Institute Iconographic Database (ca 40 images of Arethusa), https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Arethusa_(mythology)&oldid=981276490, Metamorphoses into bodies of water in Greek mythology, Articles with dead external links from October 2016, Articles with permanently dead external links, Articles lacking reliable references from December 2014, Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text, Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference, Wikipedia articles with SUDOC identifiers, Wikipedia articles with WorldCat identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, Horace, Ode 3. 10. His half-brother Pelias usurped his throne. The capital of Argolis in the Peloponnese. Artemis hid her in a cloud, but Alpheus was persistent. Iolcus could never prosper until it was brought back to Thessaly.
The cave of the Graeae lies beneath his frozen slopes. Theoi Project © Copyright 2000 - 2017 Aaron J. Atsma, Netherlands & New Zealand. The Sirens, the daughters of Acheloüs. Opposes Shame (Pudor) in Jupiter’s mind over the sacrifice of Io as a gift to Juno. A son of Minos, King of Crete. Chione bore him to Mercury. (As such he is a vegetation god born from the heart of the wood.). Also the king who succeeded Latinus. Bk XV:307-360. (Broadly modern Campania, occupying the Tyrrhenian coast and the western slopes of the Apennines, colonised by Greeks and Etruscans, and Calabria the ‘toe’ of the Italian ‘boot’ between the Tyrrhenian and Ionian Seas, colonised by the Greeks, and part of Magna Graecia). Brings the dawn as Phaethon begins his ride. Artemis then broke the ground allowing Arethusa another attempt to flee. 22.
el:Αρέθουσα (μυθολογία) Alpheios spielt eine tragende Rolle in der „Alpheios und Arethusa“-Sage. Bk III:165-205. (Paus. Mythologie. Bk XIV:609-622.
For this reason, therefore, because the water of the Alpheios mingles with the Arethousa, I am convinced that the legend arose of the river's love-affair. 9 : Strabo, Geography 6. sr:Аретуза
8 (trans. Bk VIII:152-182. 14.
Cephalus tempts Procris there, in disguise. Her rape by Jupiter disguised as a Satyr, is depicted by Arachne. (For an echo of the last lines here see Rilke’s poem and epitaph ‘Rose, oh reiner Widerspruch, Lust, Niemandes Schlaf zu sein unter soviel Lidern.’). Bk XIII:1-122. Bk VI:103-128.
Julius Caesar’s grand-nephew, whom he adopted and declared as his heir, Octavius Caesar (Octavian). An Indian youth, a companion of Phineus, killed by Perseus along with his friend and lover Lycabas.
He strikes the boar, but Diana has stolen his spear point in flight.
A volcanic mountain in Sicily. She seduces Cephalus and is angered by him. (The idea for Coleridge’s ‘Alph, the sacred river’ in Kubla Khan?)
Bk XV:843-870.
Bk XV:622-745. Bk IV:663-705.
Bk XIV:223-319. We use cookies for essential site functions and for social media integration. Bk II:531-565. It is threatened by Diana’s avenging wild boar.
Bk II:1-30. Grant) (Roman mythographer C2nd A.D.) : Pindar, Nemean Ode 1.
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