In Greek mythology , Arethusa (/ˌærɪˈθjuːzə/ ; Ancient Greek : Ἀρέθουσα) may refer to the following personages:
Arethusa, one of the 50 Nereids , sea-nymph daughters of the 'Old Man of the Sea ' Nereus and the Oceanid Doris .[ 1] She was counted in the train of Cyrene along with her sister Opis , Deiopea and Ephyra .[ 2]
Arethusa , a nymph of a spring who was pursued by the river god Alpheus . She was a huntress and attendant of Artemis .[ 3] She may be the same with the above Arethusa.
Arethusa, one of the Hesperides according to Apollodorus .[ 4] [ 5] [ 6] [ 7]
Arethusa (Boeotia) , the Boeotian daughter of Hyperes ,[ 8] son of Poseidon and the Pleiad Alcyone . She was the mother of Abas , king of the Abantians in Euboea by Poseidon.[ 9] The god had an intercourse with Arethusa in Boeotian Euripus and was changed into a fountain in Chalcis by Hera .[ 8]
Arethusa, a Euboean princess as daughter of King Abas and thus, granddaughter of the above Arethusa. She was the sister of Alcon , Dias [ 10] and probably, of Canethus [ 11] and Chalcodon .[ 12]
Arethusa, a Cretan woman, whose son was killed in the Trojan War . She was married to Thersander and their son was Hyllus .[ 13]
Arethusa, one of Actaeon's dogs.[ 14]
Arethusa (Ithaca) , an Ithacan woman who transformed into a clear spring.[ 15]
^ Hyginus , Fabulae Preface
^ Virgil , Georgics 4.344 ff.
^ Ovid , Metamorphoses 5.573 ff.
^ Apollodorus , 2.5.11
^ Michael Grant, John Hazel (2002). Who's who in Classical Mythology, p. 268 [1]
^ Peter Parley (1839). Tales about the mythology of Greece and Rome, p. 356
^ Charles N. Baldwin, Henry Howland Crapo (1825). A Universal Biographical Dictionary, P. 414
^ a b Hesiod , Ehoiai 131 from Michigan papyrus
^ Hyginus, Fabulae 157
^ Stephanus , s.v. Athēnai
^ Apollonius, 1.79
^ Eustathius on Homer , Iliad 281.43
^ Quintus Smyrnaeus , 10.82
^ Hyginus, Fabulae 181
^ Scholia ad Homer , Odyssey 13.380