Alphaea

Or Alpheaea (Ἀλφεαία), or Alpheiusa (Ἀλφειοῦσα), a surname of Artemis, which she derived from the river god Alpheus, who loved her, and under which she was worshiped at Letrini in Elis,1 and in Ortygia.2

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References

Notes

  1. Pausanias. Description of Greece vi, 22.5; Strabo. Geography viii, 343.
  2. Scholiast on Pindar's Pythian Odes ii, 12; Nemean Odes i, 3.

Source

  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.

This article incorporates text from Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1870) by William Smith, which is in the public domain.