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

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.