Definitions

1. Alpheus is a river that begins from Arcadia - Laconia (present) and empties into the Ionian Sea in Elis. (Web site)
2. Alpheus, a river god, was in love with Artemis, but he realized that nothing he could do would win her heart.
3. Alpheus is also a genus of shrimp. (Web site)
4. However, Alpheus was not so easily deterred - the god of the river simply assumed the form of a hunter and pursued his chosen prey.
5. In Greek myth, Alpheus is a river deity, son of Oceanus and Tethys.

Story

1. Hence the story ran that a cup thrown into the Alpheus appeared again in Arethusa. (Web site)

Stream

1. Such was the stream of Arethusa, the Lycus in Asia, the Erasinus in Argolis, the Alpheus in Peloponnesus, the Arcas in Spain, and the Rhone in France.
2. But in this form Alpheus knew me and attempted to mingle his stream with mine. (Web site)

Banks

1. Alpheus boils; the banks of Spercheus burn; and the gold which Tagus carries with its stream melts in the flames. (Web site)

Hunter

1. There is no need for these two stories to clash, Alpheus the hunter is also Alpheus the river-god.

Waters

1. Bk V:572-641. She tells the story of her pursuit by Alpheus and her transformation into the waters of Syracusan Ortygia. (Web site)

Large River

1. There is a large river with this name in Thessaly but also another of the same name, a small tributary to Alpheus in Pisatis.

God

1. ALPHEUS:god of the river of the same name in the Peloponnese. (Web site)

Greece

1. Alpheus flowed through Greece and under the ocean until he rose again near to Arethusa and their waters mingled.
2. Alpheus or Alfiós, river, c.70 mi (110 km) long, rising in the Taygetus Mts., S Greece. (Web site)

Diverting

1. He did so by diverting the rivers Alpheus and Peneus through the stable, which washed the muck and dung away. (Web site)

Son

1. His mother was Arsinoe 1, daughter of Phegeus 1, son of Alpheus, one of the RIVER GODS [Pau.6.17.6). (Web site)
2. His son, Alpheus Hyatt Verrill, known as Hyatt Verrill, (1871-1954) was an American archaeologist, explorer, inventor, illustrator and author.
3. He was the son of Alpheus Spring Packard (1798 -1884) and the brother of William Alfred Packard.

Rivers

1. Heracles was required to do it in one day; he succeeded by rerouting the rivers Alpheus and Peneus to wash the filth out.
2. However, Heracles succeeded by rerouting the rivers Alpheus and Peneus to wash the filth out.
3. Hercules brought the rivers Alpheus and Peneus through them, and cleansed them thoroughly in one day. (Web site)

River

1. The river Alpheus then worked its way underground to mingle with the waters of Arethusa. (Web site)
2. He was given only one day to do the task so he diverted the river Alpheus through their yard. (Web site)
3. Homeric "Peloponnese"), where we also find the River Alpheus and King Nestor's Pylos, whose location were held to be a mystery even by the ancient Greeks. (Web site)

Pherae

1. Then they reached Pherae, where Diocles lived who was son of Ortilochus, the son of Alpheus.

Fountain

1. But Alpheus pursued her beneath the sea and was himself changed into a river whose waters united with those of the fountain.

Oceanids

1. She was mother of the chief rivers of the universe, such as the Nile, the Alpheus, the Maeander, and about three thousand daughters called the Oceanids. (Web site)

Oceanus

1. In Greek mythology, Alpheus (whitish") was a river-god one of the three-thousand children of Oceanus and Tethys. (Web site)

Ortygia

1. She fled to the island of Ortygia, but Alpheus flowed under the sea to join her on the island. (Web site)

Artemis

1. Hunting in the forests of Greece, Alpheus saw Artemis and desired her.
2. Running away from a suitor, Alpheus, she was transformed by Artemis into a fountain.

Stables

1. Hercules, to clean the stables of Augeas, turned the Alpheus through them.
2. As his sixth labor, Hercules cleaned the stables in one day by diverting the course of a river (possibly the Alpheus) through them. (Web site)

River-God Alpheus

1. Pursued by the river-god Alpheus, fled to Sicily, where she became a fountain. (Web site)

River-God

1. The river-god Alpheus fell madly in love with her, but she fled to Sicily.
2. She was pursued all the way to the island from Greece by the River-God Alpheus. (Web site)
3. A nymph attendant of Artemis who, when pursued by the river-god Alpheus, is changed by Artemis into a fountain.

Nymph

1. She was a nymph changed by Artemis into a fountain to enable her to escape the pursuit of Alpheus. (Web site)

Peneus

1. Heracles, however, rerouted two rivers (Alpheus and Peneus) and cleaned the stables quickly and easily.
2. He turned two rivers, the Alpheus and the Peneus, through the stables, finishing the work in a single day.
3. Then he noticed that it was located between two great rivers, the Alpheus and the Peneus. (Web site)

River God

1. But not all Naiads were willing accomplices: Arethusa, a nymph of a spring, was a huntress with whom the river god Alpheus fell in love. (Web site)
2. She was loved by the river god Alpheus and pursued beneath the sea to Sicily.
3. The river god Alpheus fell in love with her after seeing her take a bath, and she fled to the island Ortygia, where she was transformed into a fountain.

Arethusa

1. Alpheus pursued Arethusa to Sicily, where his waters mingled with those of the nymph. (Web site)
2. But Arethusa, like her Goddess, desired nothing more than to hunt and be free in the forest so she ran from Alpheus.
3. Arethusa, in Greek mythology, nymph favored by Artemis and loved by the river god Alpheus. (Web site)

Alpheus

1. For the god of this particular river (who was named Alpheius or Alpheus) was roused by the sight of Arethusa, and immediately fell in love with the nymph.
2. One of Artemis 's nymphs was Arethusa and, having failed to win his Goddess, Alpheus fell in love with Arethusa while she was bathing in his waters.
3. Arethusa ran from a suitor, Alpheus (also Alpheius or Alpheios), a river god, making her way to the isle of Ortygia in Syracuse, Sicily.

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1. Arethusa
2. Peneus
3. River God
4. River-God
5. Stables
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