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Alpheus or
Alphaeus is a
masculine given name
which may
refer to:
Alpheus (deity), a
river god in Gr****
mythology Alphaeus,
father of two of the Twelve...
- a
subterraneous communication with the
river Alpheius, in Peloponnesus.
According to Pausanias,
Alpheius was a p****ionate
hunter and fell in love with...
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where she had
likewise a
temple under the name of Alphaea. An
allusion to
Alpheius' love of
Artemis is also
contained in the fact that at
Olympia the two...
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believed that her
stream had a
subterraneous communication with the
river Alpheius. The
river disappears several times into the
limestone Arcadian mountains...
- Gr****: Ἡραία) was the most
important town of
ancient Arcadia on the
Lower Alpheius. It was
situated near the
frontiers of Elis, and on the high road from...
- the
river Alpheius, in Peloponnesus. A
legend of the period,
still told in
Sicily today, is that a
wooden cup
tossed into the
River Alpheius will reappear...
- said to have been
founded by
colonists from Pisa in Elis, near
which the
Alpheius river flowed. The
Virgilian commentator Servius wrote that the
Teuti founded...
- (1957); p 25. Apollodorus, 3.7.5. Apollodorus, 1.8.1, 2.7.5. Smith, "
Alpheius". Homer,
Iliad 20.74, 21.211 ff.. θεογονία. Liddell,
Henry George; Scott...
- the
mythical kings of
Arcadia who
originally ruled over
Phaesana on the
Alpheius.
Aepytus was the son of King Elatus. He was the
father of
Tlesenor and...
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sacrifice to Zeus Apomyius,
whereupon the
flies withdrew across the
river Alpheius. From that time the
Eleans sacrificed to Zeus
under this name. It was customary...
