Arethusa
Publié le 22/02/2012
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Arethusa (1) Greek A Naiad or Nymph of
fountains and rivers. In one legend, told by Ovid
in Metamorphoses, the nymph is pursued by the river
god Alpheus. Arethusa calls to the goddess Artemis
for help; Artemis turns Arethusa into a fountain at
Syracuse on the island now called Sicily, where the
Fontana Arethusa still exists.
Arethusa (2) Greek One of the sisters known
as the Hesperides; either the daughters of Erebus
(Darkness) and Nyx (Night) or the daughters of Atlas
and Pleione or Hesperis. Her sisters, those named by
people writing during the classic age of Greek mythology,
were Aegle (2), Erytheia, and Hesperia.