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Alpheus
also: Ἀλφειός
The chief river of the Peloponnese, flowing past Olympia; named as a claimed birthplace of Dionysus (Hymn 1), the river to which Hermes drives Apollo's stolen cattle (Hymn 4), and a landmark on the Cretans' voyage (Hymn 3).
Reading notes
- The Homeric Hymns §1.1 Alpheus
The chief river of the Peloponnese, flowing past Olympia; named as a claimed birthplace of Dionysus (Hymn 1), the river to which Hermes drives Apollo's stolen cattle (Hymn 4), and a landmark on the Cretans' voyage (Hymn 3).
- The Odyssey §3.477 Alpheius
The great river of the Peloponnese, here treated as a god: he fathered Ortilochus, whose son Diocles hosts Telemachus and Peisistratus at Pherae on the road from Pylos to Sparta.