Alpheus · Atlas · Falsafa

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the Alpheus2 mentions

Well-wooded grove of Pisa beside the Alpheus, welcome this victory-procession and the garland we bring to the victor;

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OlympianClassical · Greek

The river beside Olympia, site of Pherenicus's race, Pelops's tomb, and repeatedly invoked as the setting of victory throughout the window.

Well-wooded grove of Pisa beside the Alpheus, welcome this victory-procession and the garland we bring to the victor;

chapter 8 ¶

Savior Zeus, high in the clouds, you who dwell on the hill of Cronus and honor the wide-flowing Alpheus and the sacred cave of Ida!

chapter 5 ¶

Now he has a share in splendid blood-sacrifices, resting beside the ford of the Alpheus, where he has his attendant tomb beside the altar that is thronged with many visitors.

chapter 1 ¶

HellenicaClassical · Greek

A river whose mouth marks Iphicrates' sailing route.

Then, after reaching Elis and sailing past the mouth of the Alpheus, he anchored beneath the promontory called Ichthys.

chapter 6 ¶

Then the Arcadians, without advancing to meet them, formed in line of battle on the river Cladaus, which flows past the Altis and empties into the Alpheus.

chapter 7 ¶

ElectraClassical · Greek

A river in Elis invoked by Orestes as part of his false cover story to Aegisthus.

Orestes said, We are Thessalians, going to the Alpheus river to sacrifice to Olympian Zeus.

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IonClassical · Greek

River whose streams Ion tells a bird to go rear its young beside, away from the temple.

Away and rear thy young amid the streams of swirling Alpheus, or get thee to the woody Isthmian glen, that Phoebus’ offerings and his shrine may take no hurt.

ion ¶

IliadClassical · Greek

A river near Pylos and Elis, site of sacrifice and mustering in Nestor's tale, and itself a recipient of a sacrificial bull.

Thence in full panoply and equipment we came towards noon to the sacred waters of the Alpheus, and there we offered victims to almighty Zeus, with a bull to Alpheus, another to Poseidon, and a herd-heifer to Athena.

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Hymn 1 to DionysusClassical · Greek

A river named as the setting for one reported version of Dionysus' birth.

and others by the deep-eddying river Alpheus that pregnant Semele bare you to Zeus the thunder-lover.

hymn 1 to dionysus ¶

Hymn 4 to HermesClassical · Greek

Alpheus is the river near the byres where Hermes brings and conceals the stolen cattle.

Then the two all-glorious children of Zeus hastened both to sandy Pylos, and reached the ford of Alpheus, and came to the fields and the high-roofed byre where the beasts were cherished at night-time.

hymn 4 to hermes ¶

And when the god had duly finished all, he threw his sandals into deep-eddying Alpheus, and quenched the embers, covering the black ashes with sand, and so spent the night while Selene's soft light shone down.

hymn 4 to hermes ¶

And now the divine night, his dark ally, was mostly passed, and dawn that sets folk to work was quickly coming on, while bright Selene, daughter of the lord Pallas, Megamedes' son, had just climbed her watch-post, when the strong Son of Zeus drove the wide-browed cattle of Phoebus Apollo to the river Alpheus.

hymn 4 to hermes ¶

IsthmeanClassical · Greek

River at Olympia, invoked alongside the Olympian games as a source of coveted wreaths.

May he, raised up on the splendid wings of the Pierian Muses with their lovely voices, also arm his hand with wreaths from Pytho, with exquisite wreaths from the Alpheus and the Olympian games, thus winning glory for seven-gated Thebes.

chapter 1 ¶