Alpheias

A name by which Ovid1 designates the nymph of the Sicilian well Arethusa, because it was believed to have a subterraneous communication with the river Alpheus, in the Peloponnese.

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References

Notes

  1. Metamorphoses v, 487.

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.