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ALPHEUS ('AAdseaos; mod. Ruphia)

This article appears in Volume V01, Page 733 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: ALM-ANC
ALPHEUS ('AAdseaos; mod. Ruphia) , the
chief
  river of Peloponnesus. Strictly Ruphia is the
modern
  name for the ancient Laden, a tributary which rises in N.E.
Elis
 , but the name has been given to the whole river. The
Alpheus
  proper rises near Asea; but its passage thither by 'subterranean channels from the Tegean plain and its
union
  with the Eurotas are probably mythical (see W. Loring, in Journ.
Hell
 . Studies, xv. p. 67). It consists for the most
part
  of a shallow and rapid stream, occupying but a small
part
  of its broad, stony bed. It empties itself into the Ionian sea. Pliny states that in ancient times it was navigable for six Roman miles from its mouth.
Alpheus
 
was recognized in cult and myth as the
chief
  or typical river-god in the Peloponnesus, as was Achelous in northern
Greece
 . His waters were said to pass beneath the sea and rise again in the fountain Arethusa at Syracuse; such is the earlier version from which later mythologists and poets evolved the
familiar
  myth of the loves of Alpheus and Arethusa.


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