Encyclopedia > Alpheus

Article Content

Alpheus

In Greek mythology, Alpheus (whitish") was a river-god one of the three-thousand children of Oceanus and Tethys. He fell in love with Arethusa, a nymph, and chased her to Sicily. Artemis changed her into a fountain. He swam underwater to be with her and mingled his waters with hers.

All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License

Search Encyclopedia

Search over one million articles, find something about almost anything!

Featured Article

Explorer

... 13th century. John Wesley Powell, (1834-1902), explorer, environmentalist Nathaniel Pryor[?], (c 1785-1850), US explorer Pytheas, (died 1984), Greek explorer who ...