Alpheus

Role: river god · First appears: Fable 53

Life events

• Alpheus changes into water to mingle with Arethusa.(Fable53)
  • With: Arethusa
  • “But still the river recognized the waters, the objects of his love; and, having laid aside the shape of a mortal, which he had assumed, he was changed into his own waters, that he might mingle with me.”

Fable 53

• admirer->admired with Arethusa “But still the river recognized the waters, the objects of his love; and, having laid aside the shape of a mortal, which he had assumed, he was changed into his own waters, that he might mingle with me.”
• admired: Arethusa (Alpheus pursues Arethusa and is described as loving her.) “But still the river recognized the waters, the objects of his love; and, having laid aside the shape of a mortal, which he had assumed, he was changed into his own waters, that he might mingle with me.”

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Extracted from the original text of The Metamorphoses of Ovid. Made with Rho MD.