person
Arethusa
Arcadian nymph of Diana's train, pursued by the river Alpheus and changed to a spring.
Reading notes
- The Loves §3.6 Arcadian maid
Arethusa, the Arcadian nymph of Diana's train fled by — and finally joined to — the river Alpheus.
- Letters from the Black Sea §2.10 flees the Elean river
Arethusa, the nymph who fled the Elean river-god Alpheus across the sea to Sicily, where she rose as a spring at Syracuse.
- The Festivals §4.12 Arethusa
The Sicilian fountain-nymph who summoned the goddesses to the feast Ceres was attending.
- Metamorphoses §5.116 the Alpheian nymph
Arethusa, a nymph whose spring at Ortygia (Syracuse) is fed, through the sea, by the Elean river Alpheus.