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14-685: (Redirected from Alpheius ) Alpheos or Alpheus may refer to: Alpheus (mythology) , a river god in Greek mythology Alpheus, West Virginia , a community in the US Alfeios River, the Greek river which the mythological god refers to Alphaeus , a father of two of the Twelve Apostles in the New Testament Alpheus Mytilenaeus , an ancient Greek poet Alpheus (crustacean) ,

28-557: A genus of shrimps See also [ edit ] Alphaeus (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Alpheus . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alpheus&oldid=1092596589 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

42-531: A quail (Ortyx), threw herself into the sea, and was metamorphosed into the island of Ortygia. Another myth suggested that it was Delos, rather than Ortygia. Eos , the goddess of the dawn , fell in love with the mortal hunter Orion and abducted him to Ortygia, where he met Artemis and joined her retinue. He was slain by the goddess either because the gods did not approve of goddesses taking mortal men to lovers, or for challenging her in an archery contest, or trying to force himself upon one of her maids. Ortygia

56-409: 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 divinities had one altar in common. In these accounts two or more distinct stories seem to be mixed up together, but they probably originated in the popular belief that there was a natural subterranean communication between the river Alpheios and the well Arethusa. It

70-551: A well, after which Alpheus became a river, which flowing from the Peloponnese under the sea to Ortygia, there united its waters with those of the well Arethusa. The well of Arethusa is a symbol of Syracuse . This story is related somewhat differently by the Roman writer Ovid : Arethusa, a beautiful nymph , once while bathing in the river Alpheus in Arcadia , was surprised and pursued by

84-567: Is a small island which is the historical centre of the city of Syracuse , Sicily . The island, also known as the Città Vecchia (Old City), contains many historical landmarks. The name originates from the Ancient Greek órtyx ( ὄρτυξ ), which means " quail ". The Homeric Hymn to Delian Apollo has it that the goddess Leto stopped at Ortygia to give birth to Artemis , the firstborn of her twins. Artemis then helped Leto across

98-514: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Alpheus (mythology) Like most river gods, Alpheus was a son of the Titans Oceanus and his sister-wife Tethys . Telegone , daughter of Pharis , bore his son, the king Orsilochus . Through him, Alpheus was the grandfather of Diocles , and great-grandfather of a pair of soldiers, Crethon and Orsilochus, who were slain by Aeneas during

112-490: The Trojan War . The river god was also called the father of Melantheia who became the mother of Eirene by Poseidon . In later accounts, Alpheus (Alphionis) was the father of Phoenissa , possible mother of Endymion by Zeus . According to Pausanias , Alpheus was a passionate hunter and fell in love with the nymph Arethusa , but she fled from him to the island of Ortygia near Syracuse , and metamorphosed herself into

126-455: The love of Alpheus. Once, it is said, when pursued by him she fled to Letrini in Elis , and here she covered her face and those of her companions (nymphs) with mud, so that Alpheus could not discover or distinguish her, and was obliged to return. This occasioned the building of a temple of Artemis Alphaea at Letrini. According to another version, the goddess fled to Ortygia , where she had likewise

140-410: The river god; but the goddess Artemis took pity upon her and changed her into a well, which flowed under the earth to the island of Ortygia. Alpheus took on water form jumping into the stream, but the earth opened and the stream flew underground to appear in a bay near Syracuse, near the island Ortygia , a location sacred to Artemis. According to other traditions, Artemis herself was the object of

154-427: The sea to the island of Delos , where Leto gave birth to Apollo . Other ancient sources state that the twins were born in the same place – which was either Delos or Ortygia – but Ortygia, according to Strabo was an old name of Delos. Further, there were perhaps a half-dozen other places called Ortygia, so that the identification is uncertain. It was also said that Asteria , the sister of Leto, metamorphosed into

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168-809: Was also the river which Heracles , in the fifth of his labours , rerouted in order to clean the filth from the Augean Stables in a single day, a task which had been presumed to be impossible. Alpheus is often associated with Antinous , the lover of the Roman Emperor Hadrian . Antinous was a Greek youth who had drowned in the Nile River . After he was deified, coins of the period depict him as Alpheios or Hadrian with Alpheios. Ortygia Ortygia ( / ɔːr ˈ t ɪ dʒ i ə / or- TIJ -ee-ə ; Italian : Ortigia [orˈtiːdʒa] ; Ancient Greek : Ὀρτυγία , romanized :  Ortygía )

182-573: Was believed that a cup thrown into the Alpheius would make its reappearance in the well Arethusa in Ortygia. Plutarch gives an account which is altogether unconnected with those mentioned above. According to him, Alpheius was a son of Helios , and killed his brother Cercaphus in a contest. Haunted by despair and the Erinyes he leapt into the river Nyctimus which afterwards received the name Alpheius. Alpheus

196-532: Was the mythological home of Arethusa , a chaste nymph who, while fleeing a river god, was transformed by Artemis into a spring, traversed underground and appeared here as the Fountain of Arethusa , thus providing water for the city. Arethusa and her pursuer, the river god Alpheus , came from Arcadia in Greece. Ortygia, being an island just off the coast, was easily transformed into a natural fortress with harbors and

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