Achelous
deity figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
daughters of Achelous
in the texts
Letters
River-god whose 'daughters' (the Sirens) are invoked as a simile for Basil's charming but harmless speech.
"This man is fairer than the daughters of Achelous by as much as he charms in the same way they do, but harms not as they do.
Orations
River god who wooed Deianeira and later contested with Heracles, losing his horn
and those who depict her in nobler fashion gave her the horn of Amaltheia, full and teeming with the fruits of the seasons—the horn that Heracles broke off from Achelous in their contest.
For some say that Archilochus talks nonsense in representing Deianeira, while she is being assaulted by the Centaur, as reciting a set speech to Heracles, reminding him of Achelous's wooing of her and of what happened then—so that Nessus had ample leisure to do whatever he wished.